Starting on Christmas Eve, many German and British troops fighting in World War I sang Christmas carols to each other across the lines, and at certain points the Allied soldiers even heard brass bands joining the Germans in their joyous singing. ... During World War I, the soldiers on the Western Front did not expect to celebrate on the battlefield, but even a world war could not destroy the Christmas spirit.
... How then can you think that past ages were better than your own? From the time of that first Adam to the time of his descendants today, man’s lot has been labor and sweat, thorns and thistles. Have we forgotten the flood and the calamitous times of famine and war whose history has been recorded precisely in order to keep us from complaining to God on account of our own times? Just think what those past ages were like! ...
On March 17th 1212, during the evening of Palm Sunday, Clare made a radical change in her life; she secretly left her father’s house and headed towards the chapel of ‘St. Mary of the Angels’, the Church of Portiuncula [...]
She was the all-time leading scorer for men and women in Villanova University Basketball and went on to be the highest paid women’s basketball player in the world. Where is she now? [...]