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Dianne Feinstein co-authored a 2001 book, "Nine and Counting," written with the eight other female senators at the time. It belongs in the pantheon of literary advice to women from women in politics, including a 2009 book addressed to America's daughters by then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
"(The) (c)reme de la creme of Washington, D.C. insiderdom." That's how a newspaper columnist described Kate O'Beirne, the Washington editor of National Review and a panelist on CNN's "Capital Gang" about 20 years ago, when I first started working at NR. I thought of that as Arizona Republican Sen. Jeff Flake announced his decision to not run for re-election.
According to Google Maps, I'm 147 miles from the University of Florida in Gainesville, but that didn't keep people from being on edge here as a white supremacist prepared to speak at that academic institution.
In 2004, Saint John Paul II was here and his words sound like they were delivered for us today.
In his first hours into a pilgrimage to Fatima, Portugal, Bishop David O'Connell, born in Ireland and serving in Los Angeles, told the story of his recent trip to Honduras.
"Sex for me is ... perhaps the single greatest humanizing force on this earth," Hugh Hefner said during a 1974 interview with CBS, sitting alongside Protestant theologian Harvey Cox.
Three trees were planted on a concrete island in the 1990s in what seems like the busiest intersection in London.
I'm just off a trans-Atlantic crossing. You don't realize how moving the experience of walking to the top of a ship for a pre-dawn arrival in New York City will be until you have the opportunity to do it.
At a time when we all too often see the worst of humanity, in Houston, Norbert and so many others showed us some of the best.
We are not seeing the best of ourselves lately. As we were all frenzied about the eclipse, I walked out of St. Agnes Church by Grand Central and came across a man resting beside his own vomit.
"Aleppo awaits you" may not be the expected message for anyone tired of politics in the United States.
When Fr. Gerard Hammond thinks of the prospect of any kind of military escalation, the word "catastrophe" is the first that comes to his mind.
Maybe it was the Iraqi-born bishop praying the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke. Maybe it was being in the same venue here where Pope John Paul II spoke in 1999. Maybe it was my whining about multiple silly inconveniences and humiliations earlier in the day. Maybe it was seeing the men visibly moved by their membership in an organization that is doing real good in the world.
"If we fill our heads with poison and junk, we make ourselves angry and dumb." Philadelphia's Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said this during a talk at the recent Napa Institute Conference on how to live in the world and also make it anew.
You don't even have to look at a newspaper or turn on the TV to know that the day-in, day-out slog of politics involves a near-total squandering of opportunity.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) recently described his book on our adolescent culture as something more than an old man yelling at the kids on his lawn. I agree with Sasse that our artistic, social and political milieu seems more juvenile, shallow and sensation-driven than ever, and I hope this column offers something similar to the senator's aim — an example of harmony amidst the noise and hope among the pessimism.
"Poland is VERY pretty at night, and the Polish people are nice too. Now I know why both Hitler and Stalin invaded #Poland in WWII." I confess, reading that parody of a Donald Trump tweet on Twitter before I'd had coffee, I believed for a moment it was actually written by our president.
About an hour and a half's drive from the White House, a cloistered nun tells me, from behind the grille that separates her physically from the world, about the freedom of her life.
There are six sisters of the Order of the Most Holy Savior in the United States, and not one of them was born in this country. Also known as the Sisters of St. Bridget, or the Bridgettines, here they hail from India and Mexico, with some time spent in the motherhouse in Rome. The order, founded by Saint Bridget of Sweden, was almost lost to history during the Reformation.
In a sea of graduates this month, Maddi Runkles stands out. Runkles is a young mom who got a commencement from high school like few others.
