Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Well, sort of. Well, not really. This morning we headed an hour west to take in the Circus City Festival Parade in Peru, Indiana. From the late 19th century to the early 1940’s, Peru was the winter home of many circuses. Ringling bought out the major circus housed there in 1929 and the era of…

Pretty fascinating little CNS story on the Vatican switchboard and phone service. Lots of tasty little nuggets. "Working at the (Vatican’s) call center is a very delicate job, and we would never think of putting in automated operators," the brother of the Society of St. Paul told Catholic News Service. About a dozen nuns who…

In the Weekly Standard, Jody Bottum tries to crack it: Of course, in one sense, Sodano was merely indulging the kind of ritual statement–everybody’s wrong, but Israel most of all–that the Vatican has been issuing for decades. It didn’t mean much in 1973, and it doesn’t mean much now. In another sense, however, Sodano’s remarks…

Someone forgot to replace the sandbox top. It rained. So?
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners