The name Advent ... this great Pope. It even appears probable, and the opinion has been adopted by Amalarius of Metz, Berno of Reichnau, Dom Martene, and Benedict XIV, that St. Gregory originated ...

The early Church Fathers—Tertullian, Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome, and Hilary—wrote in favor of clerical celibacy, and at the end of the Dark Ages, great reforming popes like Leo IX and Gregory ...

Appearing publicly in street clothes for the first time as pontiff, Pope Francis went into St. Peter ... Saving a Dive Bar: When Lucy’s, a homey New York tavern, closed down and underwent ...

The statute depicts a man seated on a bench “who appears to be a homeless person” carrying only two possessions: a full backpack on his shoulder and a stick in one hand.

There would be two new senators from our new state ... We could sure use that. Dennis Gregory writes a bi-monthly column for West Hawaii Today and welcomes your comments at [email protected].

The Advent wreath is made of four candles and a circle of branches. Before the first candle is lighted, the household gathers for this blessing. In the short days and long nights of Advent ...

Born in 213 A.D. Died 270 A.D. Gregory was of a distinguished pagan family. He was born at Neocaesarea, Pontus, and studied law there. About 233, he and his brother, Athenodorus, accompanied his ...

The first reported case of a sexually transmitted fungal infection in the United States was Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII (TMVII ... involved males in New York City who presented ...

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First published in 1983 and edited by Toni Morrison, this lost classic chronicles the exploits of a black party girl making her way in Detroit and New York City in a time of sexual liberation ...

"Adultery, fraud, and manslaughter are mortal sins." St. Cyprian of Carthage, "Treatise VII," c. 250 A.D. "The clergyman who is deposed for mortal sin, shall not be excommunicated." St. Basil the ...

O immaculate virgin, mother of God and mother of humanity, we believe with all the fervour of our faith in your triumphal assumption both in body and in soul into heaven where you are acclaimed as ...