For millennia, every December 25, Christians have celebrated the feast of the birth of Jesus Christ. As the Catechism says (525-526): Jesus was born in a humble stable, into a poor family. Simple ...
As the Roman Empire transformed, its emperors had conflicting views on pagan traditions. This video explores their personal ...
The influential Christian conservative organization Family Research Council (FRC) is hard (no pun intended) at work, trying to save us from pornography. On Wednesday, in Washington DC, (the porn ...
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Debbie Elliott. Earlier in the program, we heard from some wind-watchers. Sun-watchers in the northern hemisphere noted the summer solstice this past ...
One of you readers sent me the other day this Peter Brown essay from the New York Review of Books, in which he remarks upon a new book out from Harvard University Press about sex in ancient Rome.
A summer-solstice festival on the Tiber River in Rome revived the spirit of the city's ancient, pagan past. The dusk-to-dawn celebration included a sound-and-light show created by Italian and American ...