When I was hospitalized from a near death experience not so long ago and recovery was frustratingly slow, what time I had (and there was a lot of it) was filled by going through a voluminous tome on the life of St. Padre Pio. From dawn to dusk I would pore through each page driven as much by how compelling his life story was as well as a strange sense of succor, as if the words were taking me out of a calamitous predicament and transporting me to a place which brought peace.

The 90th anniversary of Václav Havel's birth (October 5, 1936 – December 18, 2011) will be celebrated throughout 2026, featuring international exhibitions, essay competitions, and archival projects honoring his legacy as a dissident playwright, the last president of Czechoslovakia, and the first president of the Czech Republic. When he passed away, we lost a hero of our times, a friend of freedom, who lived his life with integrity and sent forward ripples of hope into the wor

We interrupt our normal programming. For the next few minutes there will be no words about the Iran War, the Ukraine War, privation, inequity, injustice, natural disasters, social/racial, religious conflict, natural disasters, or any other source of division or stress. Imagine for a moment the following. On the evening of April Fools’ Day, while taking his daily walk, a citizen listened to the live Artemis II countdown on his phone and chatted with neighbors as they all strai

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