Remembrance Sunday: How does the Premier League mark it, and why do some see it as controversial?

Clubs in English football will mark Remembrance Sunday by playing the ‘Last Post’, laying wreaths, and observing a minute's ...

Ex-Serviceman Recalls the Silence That Ended the Great War - On This Day in 1925

In 2010, Martin was stabbed, shot and left for dead by her trainer and then-husband of 19 years, James Martin (played in the film by Ben Foster). He was found guilty of attempted second-degree murder ...

Character Spotlight: How Bertha Mason in 'Jane Eyre' Became the Silence in the Attic

Bertha Mason isn’t simply the madwoman locked away in 'Jane Eyre'. She is the voice society refused to hear. Through her ...
NPR

To speak or not to speak: Why many aid groups are silent about the Trump cuts

Those words are written on a sticky note on the desk of Thomas Weiss, a professor of international relations and global governance at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York. Weiss came ...
National Catholic Register

Don’t Rush the Silence: Rediscovering Stillness in Mass

In talking to a pious young priest the other day, one who strives for punctilio in keeping all the rubrics in place while saying Mass, I asked about the length of the pause he observes before ...