— Paul Robeson Paul Robeson on the fight for freedom “This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them fought, bled, and died.

Catholics worldwide remember St. John Paul II on his feast day, Oct. 22. His “secret” to life and all that he did, he said, was the Eucharist.

The hymn, "On Eagle’s Wings," was written by St. Paul priest and University of St. Thomas professor the Rev. Michael Joncas in 1976. "I have never had my phone ring so much," Father Joncas said.