And since Festinger’s day, an array of new discoveries in psychology and neuroscience has further demonstrated how our preexisting beliefs, far more than any new facts, can skew our thoughts and ...

Pope Francis passed away on April 21, 2025, after more than a decade of holding the highest position in the Catholic Church.

Like most of us, I long with all my heart to serve “the poor.” Bitter experience has shown that soup lines and bandaging are ...

This was the ideal—black and graceful under fire—saluted that evening. The president was lionized as “our crown jewel.” The first lady was praised as the woman “who put the O in Obama.” ...

The author of Hebrews says that in showing hospitality one may entertain angels unaware (Heb. 13:2), and the converse is also ...

For the sad but true fact is that child poverty is the biggest cause of social division in Britain today, a scar on our national conscience, and a stain on the soul of the country. Seventy-five per ...

A number of First Holy Communion ceremonies took place recently throughout the Déíse county including Our Lady of Mercy school and Waterford News & Star photographer, Joe Evans was there to capture ...

Thus, not allowing even a scratch to our holy Golden Temple,” Seshadri added. Operation Sindoor triggered four days of strikes and counterstrikes with drones, missiles and long-range weapons ...

Zertal believes the structure was the altar that the Bible says the prophet Joshua built on Mount ... judgment” in Finkelstein’s work. In an essay in the Israeli daily Ha’aretz, Hershel ...

RUBAYA, Congo (AP) — Nestled in the green hills of Masisi territory in Congo, at the artisanal Rubaya mining site, hundreds of men labor by hand to extract coltan, a key mineral crucial for ...

There are verses extolling the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), with his reverence ... (the precursor to the Guru Granth Sahib, Sikhism’s holy book) incorporating hymns from Hindu, Sikh and Muslim ...

For millions of his followers, the President is no longer the Administrator-in-Chief but something closer to the hero Rama in the Hindu epic the Ramayana: a divine avatar destined to wage a holy ...