WASHINGTON – President Harry Truman knew it was time to gut the White House when the leg of a black Baldwin grand piano broke through the floor of his daughter Margaret’s sitting room. The president ...

For centuries, books have possessed an almost mystical power to challenge, provoke, and fundamentally alter the way societies think about themselves. Some works have been so potent in their ability to ...

It's always a matter of time before the most popular TV shows of a given year become subject to controversy for issues both on and off-screen. However, one area of modern television which we don't ...

The very title of Pope Saint John Paul II’s 2003 encyclical “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” (“The Church of the Eucharist”) tells us clearly that the Eucharist is at the heart of who we are as Catholics and ...

A new Japanese junior-high-school history textbook, attacked by neighboring nations as a right-wing distortion of Japan's pre-World War II role in Asia, is a surprise bestseller at home. Tohan, a ...