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Our 2021-22 panel for The Life is coming to an end. For both the August and September issues of The Life, we asked all of our panelists the sa...

For 10 years, a single Buddha head has watched over the corner of West Loyola Avenue and North Sheridan Road — but it’s not alone. The Lake Shore Campus

Things in politics have changed since those olden days I describe here. A lot.

Conventional wisdom would have it that monastic life is a hopeless throwback to the past — a case of "let the last monk or sister standing t...

The Benedictine Sisters of Saint Scholastica Monastery are a special bunch of women. They work hard, they pray deeply, and they carry burden silently. That's who they are as women of service, being as equally careful as they are diligent about every decision, particularly those that impact the community around them.

Laura Fuentes had barely introduced the topic of her talk at a recent Quapaw Quarter Association Preservation Conversations when a hand shot up in the back row.

Despite public outcry, the sisters of St. Scholastica Monastery in Fort Smith will move forward with their decision to demolish the building

The disc jockey was born in January 1935 when Martin Block, a $20-a-week announcer employed by New York’s WNEW 1130-AM, began playing records between updates on the trial of Bruno Hauptmann, accused of kidnapping and murdering the infant son of aviator Charles Lindbergh and his wife, Anne.

America is a young country without ruins, constantly remaking itself. Some civilizations have been around for millennia; if you accept July 4, 1776, as the national birthdate, we aren't even 250 years old.

After 98 years, the iconic St. Scholastica Monastery on Albert Pike in Fort Smith will be torn down