The Dalai Lama has declared that his reincarnation will be determined without Chinese Communist Party involvement, ...

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In 1950, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith wrote “A Declaration of Conscience” as a way to oppose Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his ...

SAINTS & ART: St. Otto of Bamberg’s feast crosses borders, just as he did to evangelize a still-pagan Pomerania. St. Otto of Bamberg, whose feast is observed July 2 in the United States, is also ...