3+ week, 3+ day ago   (998+ words) The late afternoon sun catches the twin spires of the Archabbey Basilica at St. Vincent College, casting a long shadow across the pristine practice fields of the Pittsburgh Steelers' training camp. For 60 years, this rural patch of Westmoreland County has…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (656+ words) We are often inundated these days with bad news. And those with families feel the negative influences of Hollywood, the media, the schools, and social media, which seem to join together to keep young people from walking on “the straight…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (444+ words) Father’s Day has always been a tender day for me—one filled with gratitude, memory, and reflection. As the holiday approaches, I find myself thinking about the fathers who shape our lives, the men who guide us with strength and…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago   (572+ words) The nation’s mental health crisis seems to be getting worse, but is the remedy much closer to home than we think? The problem is particularly sharp among youth, with recently published research in Pediatrics showing as many as 40 percent of…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1005+ words) PITTSBURGH – On April 19, 1926, an above-the-fold story in the Pittsburgh Gazette Times detailed the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese's Bishop Hugh Boyle officiating at the dedication of a new church and school in the city's upper-north-side neighborhood off Perrysville Avenue. "The services, which…...

6+ mon, 6+ day ago   (667+ words) Good Friday is, at its core, a confrontation with suffering. It is not comfortable. It is not triumphant. It does not offer easy answers. It asks us instead to sit with the reality of sacrifice, injustice and human frailty. It…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (913+ words) The first thing to die wasn’t his body. It was his illusion. He hung there—lungs burning, muscles failing, every breath a fight he was losing. The crowd didn’t care. The soldiers didn’t care. The sky itself seemed to turn…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (300+ words) When most of us think of our birthdays, we probably have flashbacks to childhood. When I was three, my parents put together a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs party for me. The icing on the cake (pun intended) — besides…...