City Father

Today is Ascension Thursday , the 40th day of Easter. In some European countries, today is celebrated as a public civic holiday, as well as ...

  Today is Mothers Day . I will dutifully remember my mother (and my grandmother) at the commemoration of the dead at Mass this morning. Tha...

One year ago today, that traditional announcement of ecclesiastical good news,  Habemus Papam  ("We have a Pope") ,  resounded in ...

  Charles Darwin, it is sometimes said, eliminated God from nature; Karl Marx expelled God from history; and Sigmund Freud drove him from th...

Today is  May Day , although a chilly 44 degrees in the city at the start of the day belies the inherited image of May Day as a herald of su...