Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 2nd, 2010
Five years ago today, I was on a study abroad semester in Rome and returning to Rome from a trip in Ireland. Terri Schiavo had died just days earlier, and Pope John Paul II was on his death bed. As my friend and I made our way through airports, the silence was deafening. As Americans, [...]
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Posted in Culture, Faith, Society on Jan 17th, 2010
That’s the message Haitian Catholics and Christians proclaimed today, at their first Sunday worship since the earthquake devastated their capital city.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (CBS) ―Drumbeats called the faithful to a Sunday Mass praising God amid a scene resembling the Apocalypse — a collapsed cathedral in a city cloaked with the smell of death, where aid is [...]
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