1+ hour, 51+ min ago  (732+ words) On a recent trip to New York, I saw a fantastic exhibit at the American Folk Art Museum: "Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists." On display through Sept. 13 are almost 90 works, divided into three methods of artistic self-fashioning and "self-making…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (573+ words) Dani Dayan, chairman of Yad Vashem, said that remembering and honoring the Holocaust is essential to combating rising antisemitism worldwide. Dayan, who met with Pope Leo XIV on March 23 together with Israel's ambassador to the Holy See, Yaron Sideman, said…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (966+ words) At the conclusion of its Veterans Day event at Holy Angels School in Arcadia, hundreds of students stood up, American flags clutched in their hands, and sang "God Bless America." Partway through the song, someone handed a flag to Joe…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1031+ words) In his homily at a solemn Peace Memorial Mass Aug. 9, Archbishop Peter Michiaki Nakamura of Nagasaki, Japan, issued a passionate plea to the world. "We must abandon the fists, weapons, and tools of violence we hold in our hands, and…...