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In the following decades, numerous Mother’s Day efforts sprang up. One was in 1904, by the administrator of the University of Notre Dame, Frank Hering, After observing students sending penny postcards to their mothers, he proposed “setting aside one day in the year as a nationwide memorial to the memories of mothers and motherhood,” writing: “Throughout history the great men of the world have given their credit for their achievements to their mothers. The Holy Church recogni...

Philomène Faye, President of the Legion of Mary of Senegal/Charles Senghor/LCA A number of Catholic movements in Senegal have just finished a three-day prayer campaign for national reconciliation following deadly violence last month that shook the normally peaceful West African nation. Angry protests and looting broke on March 3 after political opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was arrested after being accused of rape -- allegations he vehemently denies. The government this week opened an invest...

Life Sketch of James Weldon Johnson Author: James Weldon Johnson Early Life and Education On June 17, 1871, James Weldon Johnson was born in Jacksonville, Florida, to James Johnson, a Virginian, who served as the headwaiter at a resort hotel, and Helen Louise Dillet, a Bahamian, who served as the first black, female educator in the state of Florida. The Weldons raised their son to be a strong and independent. James remained a free-thinking individual as his parents had instilled in him the kn...

ANOTHER FACTOID Is it really true that the Great Wall of China can be seen from space? No, it cant. The myth originated in 1904 in Henry Norman’s The People and Politics of the Far East. It was reinforced in 1938 in Richard Halliburton’s Second Book of Marvels - The Orient and resurfaced once more during the Apollo moon landings and shuttle era. In 2003 China’s first astronaut Yang Liwei was disappointed when he couldn’t see the Great Wall from space, but in 2004 Leroy Chiao saved the d...

50 Most Popular Biblical Baby Names By Ellen Dewitt, Stacker News On 3/5/21 at 8:00 PM EST Whats in a name? Well, when it comes to biblical names, the answer is: plenty. Names from the Bible have been popular as long as the Good Book has existed, and many have grown steadily in usage in recent years. A few biblical characters made names for themselves performing miracles, like Aaron, who transformed his walking staff into a serpent and showed that he could bring on plagues of blood, frogs, a...

The Tablet February 17, 2021   WINDSOR TERRACE — Though American Catholics are used to receiving their ashes from thumb to forehead on Ash Wednesday, this year, ashes will be sprinkled on their heads. The gesture and practice of sprinkling ashes, however, has a longstanding history within Jewish and Catholic traditions. In the Biblical sense, the spreading of the ashes on the head or body sometimes goes hand-in-hand with grief. In the Second Book of Samuel, for example, a messenger �...

1 pm ET: Wiener Staatsoper presents Giselle. Conductor: Valery Ovsyanikov, choreography: Elena Tschernischova after Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa. With Nina Poláková, Masayu Kimoto, Rebecca Horner, Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Alice Firenze, Leonardo Basílio, and Soloists and Corps de ballet des Wiener Staatsballetts. Production from September 2017. Register for free and view here. 2:30 pm ET: Philharmonie de Paris presents Casadesus conducts Debussy, Ravel, Schumann & Beethoven. Jea...

President Donald Trump faces a second impeachment fight, with just days left in office. His critics have tried to undermine his remaining defenses by shaming his religious supporters into abandoning him. While that seems unlikely (and insulting), there are interesting and relevant precedents for the Trump presidency in the Bible. In 2018, I compared Trump to the Biblical King Jehu, a reformer whose brutal methods inspired support from critics of his predecessors but shock from observers. In the...

Fourth Sunday of Advent + December 20, 2020 The Advent mystery is the beginning of the end of all in us that is not yet Christ. ~Thomas Merton Prayer of the Day Stir up your power, Lord Christ, and come. With your abundant grace and might, free us from sin that would obstruct your mercy. May we willingly bear your redeeming love to all the world, for you live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen. A Reading from the Second Book of Samuel 7:1-11, 16 Now wh...

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