By Mark Wilmoth Five hundred years before Christ, the city of Athens, Greece, birthed the world’s first known democracy. Though only male citizens could vote (women and slaves were excluded), the idea that people might determine their own laws and rule themselves was attractive, considered a ...
On September 7, 1995, Baltimore’s Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig’s previous Major League consecutive game record by playing in 2131 consecutive games. Before he was finished, Ripken set the new record at 2632 games, the equivalent of going more than 16 seasons without a missed appearance. ...
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV, an avid tennis player and sports fan, marked the start of the Winter Games on Friday by extolling the positive values of sport and fair play while warning that the pursuit of profits and performance risked corrupting sport entirely. In a message entitled “Life in ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Ronald Hicks is set to be installed Friday as the 11th archbishop of New York in a ceremony at the revered St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan where dignitaries and laypeople from all walks of life are expected to gather and celebrate. Previewing the Mass to reporters on ...
When the Soviet Union overran and annexed Latvia back in 1940, the American Charge d’Affaires ad interim, John Wiley, worried that Red Cross supplies shipped to Latvia for humanitarian reasons would be seized by the Soviets. Wiley asked permission from the State Department to fly the United ...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV told the Vatican’s doctrine office on Thursday to uphold truth, justice and charity when deciding clergy sex abuse cases, confirming a calibrated approach to dealing with a scandal that has tarnished the Catholic Church’s credibility ...