The Rule of St. Benedict, like aged sherry, is an acquired taste. Wisdom Distilled from the Daily not only gave me a taste of The Rule’s timeless wisdom, but a hunger and thirst for it.

Architect and Angeleno Frank Gehry has been consulting with the city on a proposal to turn the 52 miles that run alongside the Los Angeles River into a “linear Central Park.”

While the chaos that accompanies the student protests in South Africa over fees hikes at a number of our major universities has caught the media rsquo s attention the underlying causes seem woefully under-examined In a nutshell the problem comes down to money most students can barely afford exis

Pope Francis has again surprised the Italian church by appointing as archbishops of Bologna and Palermo two pastors that have “the smell of the sheep.”

If you find yourself wondering, since when is the pope unable to call for a change in church doctrine, well, that's a good question.

As with a poem or a dance a symphony or a drama there are times when the deeper narrative of human experience comes to expression more clearly only through art Political events or their interpretation are no different The title of a French film released last year ldquo Cartoonists Foot-sold