Tag: Christianity

Sir Alec Guinness (1914-2000), renowned British actor, converted to Catholicism after playing a priest in the 1954 film “The Detective,” aka Father Brown. Perhaps best… Read More

Hugging the waters of the wide Yug River is the village of Sholga, Vologda governate. Not far from the banks stands a large, majestic church… Read More

Is. 25:6–10 / Ps. 23:1–6 / Phil. 4:12–14, 19–20 / Mt. 22:1–14 Our Lord’s parable in this week’s Gospel is again a fairly straightforward outline… Read More

Seattle, October 13, 2023 St. Michael’s Orthodox Cathedral, Sitka AK – Facebook His Grace Bishop Alexei of Sitka and Alaska (Orthodox Church in America) recently… Read More

St. Edward was born in 1003, the son of the Duke of Normandy and the nephew of King Edmund Ironside of England. From the age… Read More

The Latin Catholic patriarch of Jerusalem has called for a day of prayer and fasting on Tuesday, Oct. 17, for peace and reconciliation in the… Read More

Catholics should approach the issue of artificial wombs with both courage and caution, an ethicist stressed after U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisers met about… Read More

About 20 people are physically abused by an intimate partner every minute in the United States. This comes out to more than 10 million women… Read More

Post-mortem portrait of Eudoxia Lukianovna Streshneva from the Petrine era. Illustration: ru.wikipedia.org The old merchant town of Meshchovsk, Kaluga Province, gave Russia two tsarinas, Eudoxia… Read More

I am not a “travel” writer, but I am a writer who travels. Travel is good for the soul.  I was struck with wanderlust the… Read More