By Charles Turk(August 24, 2005) – Until May 8, the realities of Bolshevik brutalities suffered a 60-year denial in terms of Eastern Europe. However, on May 8, President Bush was quoted as saying “the captivity of millions in Central and Eastern Europe will be remembered as one of the greatest wrongs of history.” This long-overdue acknowledgment is an understatement. In tiny Hungary alone, with a mere 9 million people, 600,000 innocents were deported to forced labor in the Soviet Union... Read more

Dear Abby: Mother’s Day is coming up and I want to take my mother out for a nice lunch. Only I have to decide: Melissa was the one who gave birth to me in the hospital 24 years ago, and she nursed me (though I don’t remember any of this). My other mom, Sally, the woman with whom my mother lived and also who took care of me; in fact, she was the one who drove me to my first... Read more

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Athens/Jerusalem (dpa) – Jerusalem’s Greek Orthodox Church elected a new patriarch Monday, replacing embattled Irineos the First after his alleged involvement in leasing property in east Jerusalem. A body of 50 clergy and leaders, both Greek and Arab, selected Bishop Theophilos, the official in charge of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, to be the new 97th patriarch of Jerusalem from among 13 candidates including the secretary general of the Jerusalem Patriarch Aristarchos and bishops Timothy and Cornelius. More …... Read more

On a trip to MarsI passed the starsAnd really thought I was dreamingAnd then I lookedIt looked like a bookBut somehow I started believing How I got hereI don’t really knowHow I believedI can’t really showBut with this trip to MarsAnd seeing the starsI know I couldn’t have been dreaming By Mary Catherine Huneycutt, age 11. Read more

Back in 1986 I was working at a little radio station, WIFM, in Elkin, North Carolina. It had been a while since I’d “spun” Country and when I came to a 45 by Dwight Yoakam, I wasn’t sure how to pronounce the name. I was alone, there wasn’t time to ask, so I announced the artist as Dwight Yo-AHH-kum. Dwight was new, I was new; the program director was gentle. As Dwight said on Friday night at Western Carolina University... Read more

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An Orthodox Christian in praise of Israel? Wait a minute, does the Pope pray in a synagogue? An Orthodox Deacon heads Thomas Nelson? Who’s buried in the Tsar’s tomb? The authorities were silent as the grave when a group of American and Russian scientists made the sensational announcement last year that the remains of the woman who had been buried with all pomp in the cathedral of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg were in fact not the... Read more

Remember the Image-Bearing Pierogi? Well, it sold on eBay … Door # 1. Supposed Orthodox Convert Tom Hanks & angry nuns? Must be the DVC. Door # 2 Door # 3 Read more

NICULA, Romania – More than 100,000 people converged on an ancient monastery in the hills of northwest Romania on Monday to kiss an icon many believe has miraculous healing powers. MORE … More, if you must, on The Duh Vinci Code … God bless protesting nuns! If you’re curious and have a time to read, here’s my thoughts on the DVC. Read more