Let me tell you about Melissa Hortman. It’s the early 2000s. She and her husband, Mark, tell their kids they are driving from their Minneapolis home to Michigan on a camping trip. Sophie and Colin are...
12.18.2025 Yahoo.com and 1 sitesWhen people think of the European Middle Ages, it often brings to mind grinding poverty, superstition and darkness. But the reality of the 1, 000-year period from 500 to 1500 was much more complex. Th...
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The Plum Village Buddhist Monastery in southern Dordogne, France , has received construction approval for the first phase of its ongoing collaboration with Dutch architecture studio MVRDV . The approv...
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Italy’s lakes are famous for big‑name spots like Como and Garda, but the quiet corners are where things get interesting. Some of the least touristy lakes in Italy boast proper scenery, characterful to...
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Opinion Posted Wednesday, December 17, 2025 9: 00 am OPINION – Director Martin Scorsese recently released a video series called ‘The Saints, ’ featuring Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian, and Maximilian Kolbe — people who risked everything to embody humanity’s most noble and complex trait: faith. I only recently learned about Father Maximilian Kolbe, a humble Franciscan friar imprisoned in Auschwitz in 1941 for opposing th...
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By The Good Newsroom Thousands of pilgrims filled St Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan 12 December for a joyous celebration of the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas. Many of tho...
12.15.2025 Catholicweekly.com.au and 1 sitesChristmas, the Pope says, can become an occasion to open our homes. Not symbolically, but literally. 2025 CHRISTMAS CAMPAIGN Help Aleteia continue its mission by making a tax-deductible donation. In t...
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The Spiritual Foundation of Morality Lecture 2 of 3 Rudolf Steiner, May 29, 1912 I remarked yesterday that what we have to say on the subject of anthroposophical moral principles and impulses will be ...
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For many who settled in East Cambridge, the Catholic Church was an important and enduring institution. Catholicism was largely a faith practiced by newcomers to the neighborhood in the 19th and early ...
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A Nativity scene designed and crafted in Nocera Inferiore and Sarno in southern Italy, is lit up in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino) VATICAN CITY (RNS) — As the Vatican unveils its crèches, Pop...
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