In his personal, engaging new book, “Sorrowful Mysteries,” the novelist and journalist Stephen Harrigan explores the enduring ...

Her face was angelic. I saw her randomly, only a handful of times in the past few years. Her mother was always pushing her in ...

When Counts Nikolai and Felix made beaming appearances Princess Isabella's dazzling 18th birthday celebrations this week, it ...

It was in Rome, towards the end of the eighteenth century, one fine evening in May. A child of the poor gathered his companions around him and led them to a statue of Mary, before which a lamp was ...

Day after day, for 21 years, Mary Avara watched movies — thousands of them. From a small screening room in an office on Calvert Street, she scrutinized films ready for theaters in Maryland and gave ...

Ms Williams, a 33-year-old mother of five ... Among them is Mary Deng, who escaped from Wad Madani, a fierce battleground in the Sudanese conflict. "This child was just one day old when we ...

Mary the Mother of Jesus ... up motherhood with a commitment; a mother constantly behind her son, growing him up strongly in character and behaviour; putting him to helping his step-father Joseph with ...

When Mary Jane Jones sang the gospel ... Jones again left her children with her mother and traveled back to Florida. This time she ate fine steaks. “I don’t like hamburgers no more ...

Victorians saw ... of children were considered pictures of innocence itself. In discussing the possibility of photographing one 8-year-old girl unclothed, Dodgson wrote to her mother: “It ...

‘Please, Mother,’ he confessed ... transportation and seven years as a convict on the other side of the world. Children only came to be protected by law about the time Mary MacKillop died in 1909. So, ...

King Frederik and Queen Mary were joined at the celebration by all four of their children – Crown Prince ... The brooch originally belonged to Margrethe's mother, Ingrid of Sweden.