Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s masterpiece captures the folly of humanity’s desire to reach heaven on its own terms.

“My phone just dings all day long with sadness, and tragedy, and heartache,” he said. “But I signed up for that. I love people. And I think the common language of humanity is suffering. We’re all ...

The Church of the Holy Rosary in Edgewater was vandalized last week by someone who put human feces in the baptismal font, church officials said. The vandalism followed a series of thefts at the church ...

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Meet the writer who helped turn a book into a cultural phenomenon. By Alex Barron, Kate LoPresti, Wendy Dorr, Sophia Lanman, Daniel Ramirez, Elisheba Ittoop and Gilbert Cruz How the novel ...

People think that the world is basically safe and that problems get addressed, so if something is common, they figure, how bad can it really be? “People believed dire problems — ranging from ...

the Oregon Department of Revenue is offering taxpayers a list of suggestions to aid in efficiently processing their return and common errors to avoid that could slow things down and delay their ...

Calling for widespread condemnation of antisemitism “wherever and whenever it appears”, Mr. Guterres said that promoting education, combating lies and speaking the truth are key – and that in days of ...

Politics in these in-between times is very much a battle to shape common sense. As the great cultural theorist ... My son Jordan and I put together some articles for a book called Tax Is Not a ...

In his Monday inaugural address President Donald Trump promised that by issuing a series of executive orders, “we will begin the complete restoration of America and the revolution of common ...

It is a practice we once took for granted but now find embarrassing. The practice is prayer. Cardinal Dolan could have used the occasion to underscore the priorities in the president’s agenda ...