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Cardinal OMalley is seen alongside Metropolitan Methodios as he addresses the Greek Orthodox community during their celebration of the Easter Vigil on May 1. Pilot photo/Alex Mavradis Help us expand our reach! Please share this article Saturday was the feast of St. Joseph the Worker, so I was pleased to be able to celebrate Mass at St. Joseph the Worker Shrine in Lowell. We were pleased to be joined by Mayor John Leahy and several members of the Lowell Fire and Police departments, who carried t...

Most mask requirements lifted in North Carolina. Masks still required in schools, other settings. Posted on Effective immediately, North Carolina is lifting most of its mandatory mask requirements, Gov. Roy Cooper said Friday afternoon. In most settings, indoors or outdoors, the state will no longer require people to wear a mask or be socially distant. Mandatory indoor mask requirements will remain in effect on public transportation, in child care settings, in schools, in prisons and in some ...

The debate over women pastors is a Southern Baptist smoke screen The fiery arguments distract from constructive conversations about entrenched racism, Christian nationalism and sexual abuse. Messengers vote on motions during the annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex on June 11, 2019, in Birmingham, Alabama. RNS photo by Butch Dill May 14, 2021 (RNS) — Over the past two weeks, Christian leaders and commentators have bee...

watch live The title, of course, is a play on words from “The Other” Dan Brown’s novel. Like “The Da Vinci Code,” the book by fisherman Dan Brown features an image of The Mona Lisa on the cover. But this Mona Lisa is holding a big Kamloops steelhead trout. It’s all in good fun, says Brown, who lives along the St. Croix River in Taylors Falls, Minn., on the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. Published by Beaver’s Pond Press in St. Paul, “Da Fishi Code” was released in late October. "...

The title, of course, is a play on words from “The Other” Dan Brown’s novel. Like “The Da Vinci Code,” the book by fisherman Dan Brown features an image of The Mona Lisa on the cover. But this Mona Lisa is holding a big Kamloops steelhead trout. It’s all in good fun, says Brown, who lives along the St. Croix River in Taylors Falls on the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. Published by Beaver’s Pond Press in St. Paul, “Da Fishi Code” was released in late October. "Da Fishi Code: Seri...

Print Travelers will be able to ‘fly well’ with the opening of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian’s Fly Well Clinic. The 850-square-foot facility is a partnership between the Newport Beach hospital and officials at John Wayne Airport. It is located post-security in Terminal B, across from Gate 10. This is not to be confused with Hoag’s rapid testing clinic that is also located in the same terminal before security and opened in January. “As we begin to see an increase in air travel ...

Not Just For Kids: Children’s Literature and the Rest of Us Many years ago, I hired a young man, Kevin, to help out part-time during the summer in my bookshop on Waynesville, North Carolina’s Main Street. Kevin was about six feet tall, a bulky kid who was a rising senior in high school and an outstanding student with a great sense of humor. One afternoon, I left the store and walked down the street to make a deposit at the bank. When I returned, Kevin stood in the back of the store weeping ...

In the early 1970s, Apolinar Ceballos was a trainee pilot who had just arrived on the military airbase of Pie de la Cuesta, on the coast of Guerrero state in Mexico. A teacher informed him one afternoon that he had been selected for a special mission – and he could tell no one about it. Ceballos would see some strange things, he was told, but he was to follow orders and not breathe a word. His first mission began at dawn. He was in charge of the plane and his teacher was his co-pilot. Befo...

Keeping Western life and culture alive in Valleys African American community There are forgotten players who helped settle the West. African American cowboys and cowgirls played a big part in keeping the Western spirit alive. and last updated 2021-05-13 10:34:01-04 PHOENIX — Most images of the Wild West conjure up thoughts of gun-toting cowboys, horses, and shootouts. The faces typically associated with these images are of white men and those who portrayed them like John Wayne and Clint Ea...

Fiesta 2021 Poster Unveiled Ahead of June Festival Published: May 13, 2021 Artist Andy Benavides knew he wanted the Alamo to act as the centerpiece when he set out to design the 2021 Fiesta San Antonio poster. His final poster accomplishes that goal with a large, multi-colored silhouette of the downtown mission and a sky above featuring papel picado cut-outs in purple and yellow. The poster was officially unveiled last night, May 12, ahead of the annual festival, which is scheduled for June 17-...