First Sunday of Lent1. GenesisIn our first reading from Genesis this Sunday, we are given a poetic and artistic snapshot of ...

Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence, and ...

Though many call it the “Fourth Of July,” July 4 is properly known as Independence Day. It celebrates the independence of the United States from Great Britain — or, more accurately, the declaration of ...

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Are we safer now than we were on Sept. 10, 2001? On the eve of the most devastating terrorist attack on the United States we weren’t safe at all, but we thought we were. The same remains true today.