Empty Pews The drops have been precipitous Recently, I viewed a photo of a beautiful church in Portage, Pa from many years ago. Not only did this show the beauty of the former Sacred Heart parish, but one commenter noted the large crowds who filled the pews. Those days are long gone. The sad part of this in America is that religious attendance has plummeted over the years to the point where people who express a desire to follow a belief still rarely attend services, if ever. The numbers are...

By HUGH CONRAD On a Friday evening [56] years ago, one day after Thanksgiving, I left a class at Penn State’s Willard Building to return to my dining hall for supper. I heard a large number of sirens near the Pattee Library, which was just about a block away from Willard. I thought that was odd because most students had left campus Wednesday and stayed home, cutting classes the day after Thanksgiving. Only four students out of 66 remainded in the fourth floor of Beaver Hall -- and two of...

Ken Starr was probably the most powerful force behind Jeffrey Epstein’s secret plea deal. Julie K. Brown The guy acted like an obnoxious preacher screaming about the evils of Bill Clinton’s affair with a young intern more than two decades ago. He spent more than 60 million dollars investigating a consensual affair between a president and a young 20-something. Today, Clinton looks like a choir boy when compared to the sleaze of Jeffrey Epstein as the worst sexual abuser of young women in...