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TAKOMA PARK, M.D. — Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin today released the following statement about their son Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin: “On January 30, 1995, Thomas Bloom Raskin was born to ecstatic parents who saw him enter the world like a blue-eyed cherub, a little angel. Tommy grew up as a strikingly beautiful curly-haired madcap boy beaming with laughter and charm, making mischief, kicking the soccer ball in the goal, acting out scenes from To Kill A Mockingbird with ...

Margaret C. Snyder (Wikimedia Commons) Margaret Snyder, the American Catholic social scientist who died on January 26 at age 91, focused on women’s rights and economic development with implacable resolve. Snyder’s manifold accomplishments were first encouraged by Catholic mentors who believed that rather than speaking reductively of women’s rights or civil rights, the all-embracing term of human rights can be most apt. A 1946 graduate of The Convent School in Syracuse, N.Y., and a 1950 g...

A member of the National Guard walks the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on the second day of former President Donald Trumps second impeachment trial in Washington Feb. 10, 2021. (CNS/Reuters/Kevin Lamarque) Earlier this month, politicians and faith leaders gathered virtually for the National Prayer Breakfast, an annual event in Washington that convenes an elite crowd of secular and spiritual power brokers. When Donald Trump spoke last year, the religious right was ascendant, Chri...

TAKOMA PARK, M.D. — Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin today released the following statement about their son Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin: “On January 30, 1995, Thomas Bloom Raskin was…

Lenore Dowling of the Immaculate Heart Community at the Womens March in Los Angeles, January 2017 (Courtesy of Merman & Anchor Entertainment) Pedro Koss new documentary, "Rebel Hearts," which premiered to a sold-out audience last month at the 2021 virtual Sundance Film Festival, recounts the story of the Immaculate Heart of Mary sisters in the Los Angeles Archdiocese. Director Kos, who is a Catholic, and producer Judy Korin, using extensive archival footage, clever animation a...

“Patriots enlist and defend their country. They work hard, do their best, raise good families. They help their neighbors. They perform civic duties. They grit their teeth and pay their taxes. Then they show up and vote. They compete, they win or lose, but they do both with grace. These are some of the things patriots do. “Patriots do not storm their own Capitol over a lost election. They do not bum-rush members of Congress. They do not assault strangers. They do not push and shove police of...

Ron Rolheiser columnWeek of January 10 2021 What is Love Asking of Us Now? “You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” Anne Lamott Those are words worth contemplating, on all sides of the political and religious divide today. We live in a time of bitter division. From our government offices down to

TAKOMA PARK, M.D. — Congressman Jamie Raskin and Sarah Bloom Raskin today released the following statement about their son Thomas (Tommy) Bloom Raskin: “On January 30, 1995, Thomas Bloom Raskin was…

A Look Back: From the Gazette Archive 50 Years Ago ■Attorney William Stringfellow and poet Anthony Towne have acknowledged they did “offer and give sustenance and lodging” to the Rev. Daniel Berrigan while he was being sought by federal authorities. Berrigan was convicted in April of destroying draft records and was arrested on Block Island in a house owned by Stringfellow and Towne. Stringfellow is a Northampton native. ■A fire destroyed one of the oldest houses in Huntington on Sunda...

press freedom, 40 years ago james goodale from the new york times when the nixon administration attempted to block the papers publication of the pentagon papers, the secret history of the vietnam war, leaked by daniel ellsberg. then, environmental activist tim dechristopher recently released from prison joins us in the studio. >> there are a lot of things we have tried, most of which have not worked, especially on climate change, on trying to get our government to do something about cl...