Prosecutors in Pennsylvania said a mother will spend the rest of her life in prison after pleading guilty last week to murdering her two sons and trying to kill her neighbor — who was also the boys’ cousin. The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said Trinh T. Nguyen, 40, admitted to shooting her sons Nelson […]
It’s Christmas morning, and chances are you have a lot going on. The kids are opening presents, and there’s wrapping paper strewn throughout the house. You might have food on the stove or in the oven ready for family to come by later. Or you may have family already at your house. […]
Here are some news stories that might be of interest. Most articles will be more or less summarized in the headline. You can skim the headlines and summaries, and click the links if they are of interest. Keep in mind, many of these reports are products of an unreliable news media, so although they will […]
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to the […]
The real claim of Christmas, for Christians, is that Truth and Love penetrated the cosmos. Christmas is a warm, loving, and tender season precisely for this reason. That warm fire, or bright sky, or joyful company, is made possible only because that God which ever lives and loves—to which the whole creation moves—entered the creation […]
Hector Berlioz was a professed atheist, but could anything as tender and touching as “L’Enfance du Christ” have been written by a man who did not believe? And what of Berlioz’s closing line to the work: “Oh my soul, what remains for you to do but shatter your pride before so great a mystery?” The […]
In 2013, Katie Hopkins appeared on British TV show “This Morning” and got into a bit of a tussle over children’s names, but now, a decade later, she has been proven, at least somewhat, right. First, she said baby names are getting crazier. True. Second, she said rude children are often named Tyler. Also true. […]
A few years back, my husband slipped his hand into the pocket of a smart hand-me-down sports coat from my Uncle Allan. He felt something in his pocket and was surprised to find a ticket for the showing of a PBS documentary called “The Boys of ’36.” Uncle Allan had arranged to preview this […]
This is a revised version of an article first published on December 16, 2018. CHRISTMAS Day would not be complete without a rousing rendition of O Come All Ye Faithful with the last verse which is given an airing only today. There are many theories about the carol’s origins but an intriguing one connects it with Stonyhurst College, the […]
I HAVE only just come across this. The Messiah Christmas Suite was arranged from the full oratorio by Tom Fettke, the prolific American composer of church music. He was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1941, and had music lessons from the age of five. He became the director of a church choir at […]
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