STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — St. Clare’s Parish, the largest-membership parish in the Archdiocese of New York, will celebrate its centennial this year. To mark the occasion, clergy and parishioners of the ...

Richard Deacon is a contemporary Welsh artist known for his writhing abstract drawings and sculptures. Working with a variety of materials, including steel, wood, ceramic, vinyl, and foam, Deacon’s ...

Richard Fontaine is the chief executive officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). He served as president of CNAS from 2012–19 and as senior fellow from 2009–12. Prior to CNAS, he was ...

Archive photo of Widmer World in Pleasanton. (Weekly file photo) Celebrating its 41st year illuminating Hillcrest Avenue in Livermore, Deacon Dave’s is appearing this week on ABC’s “The Great ...

The actress shares daughter Ava, 25, and son Deacon, 21, with ex-husband Ryan Phillippe, and son Tennessee, 12, with her ex Jim Toth Reese Witherspoon/Instagram Reese Witherspoon is celebrating ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Richard Matthew Allen, from Delphi, Indiana, was arrested and charged over the infamous case in October 2022. His arrest marked a bombshell ...

A former Lutheran deacon from Lehigh County was indicted earlier this month on federal charges alleging he brought a minor over state lines for sex several years ago. George Travis Woodfield of ...

By Trip Gabriel Richard W. Murphy, a diplomat whose colorful career included serving as ambassador to three Arab countries and as an assistant secretary of state in the 1980s — when he was the ...

The California deacon’s award-winning Christmas display of almost 1 million lights is more than just a spectacle — it’s an evangelization tool and a labor of love. The crowd takes in the ...

Last week, the UK chief of defence, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, warned us that we are at the dawn of a third nuclear age. He misses the point. The nuclear threat is deadly, but it is our ...

Richard William Roder was born Oct. 30 ... Dick is survived by his wife of 67 years, Mary of Remsen, and their offspring; Ann (Mark) Fox of Colwich, Kansas; Deacon Rick (Wendy) of Remsen; Dean (Ellen) ...

“He’s our Picasso,” the actor said of Bob Dylan. By Kathryn Shattuck It has been more than four decades since an Armani-clad Richard Gere slunk around Los Angeles in Paul Schrader’s ...