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When I was fifteen years old in 1960, I read Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex , and Albert Camus' L'Etranger . Then when I st...

Five Wounds Portuguese National Church before a Requiem Mass Many think it was providential that Ignatius Cardinal Kung of Shanghai g...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACKIE COOGAN, BORN OCTOBER 26, 1914   Have you ever heard about or seen The Kid , Charlie Chaplin's silent comedy-drama...

Chartreuse is a luxury liqueur produced by the Carthusians, a strict contemplative order of hermits founded by Saint Bruno, whose feast is ...

P.T. Barnum publicity poster When I read the excerpt from "The Writer's Almanac" for September 1, 2020 included below, I was a...

This article was originally published at Regina Magazine in 2014. Since the article is no longer available in Regina's online archive...