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I have been a news junkie almost all my life. I've read a daily newspaper since grammar school, progressing from comics to sports to the front page.
5/17/18
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I have been a news junkie almost all my life. I've read a daily newspaper since grammar school, progressing from comics to sports to the front page.

I've always loved the movies. As a child, I dreamed of directing films.

In Benedictine Father Benoit Standaert's view, the sound of the word “heartless” is nothing less than horrible.

For me, a highlight of the past month was seeing Harvard law professor Mary Ann Glendon receive the University of Notre Dame's Evangelium Vitae medal.

In his address to the U.S. Congress, French President Emmanuel Macron reminded lawmakers to think about working to make the world greater and less about making America great.

Barring further developments (and let’s hope that there aren’t any), the kerfuffle over the Catholic chaplain of the House of Representatives seems to be over.

Did the disciples of Jesus really think it would be better for them if Jesus left them?

Pope Francis has reminded the world of our universal call to holiness in “Gaudete et Exultate.”

I love when the liturgical year bumps into the secular calendar and everything seems to make sense.
You are there
Many years ago, in the “Golden Age of Television,” there was a program sponsored by the Prudential Life Insurance Company (represented by the Rock of Gibraltar) and hosted by newscaster Walter Cronkite called “You Are There.”