On Palm Sunday, Gulf Harbors Yacht Club will stage its 37th annual Blessing of the Fleet. Yacht club officials expect between 35 and 50 boats to participate April 5, according to Barb Bailey, the community relations representative for the yacht club. ...more

March 28, 2009

American Legion Post 186 will present the Four Chaplains Memorial Service at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 1, at Mariner United Methodist Church, 7079 Mariner Blvd., Spring Hill. ...more

January 16, 2009

Note from writer: Several years ago I interviewed a local Roman Catholic priest who had resigned his clerical post to marry a divorcee with two children. I attended and wrote about the new CACINA church that followed, and later, the training and ordination of its current priest, Rev. James Marsh. ...more

January 10, 2009

WRITER'S NOTE: Merry Christmas! Don't we feel a special elation and fanfare elevating the best of mankind and our loved ones and neighbors each Dec. 25? I do. And I enjoy soliciting an annual sampler of reflections demonstrating some more unique aspects of Christmas and seasonal smiles. So grab a cookie and a cup to warm your day: ...more

December 25, 2008

A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion rights, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil." ...more

November 13, 2008

It's a crime that police officers in a small eastern Arizona community can hardly fathom yet have to deal with: an 8-year-old charged in the fatal shootings of his father and another man. ...more

November 8, 2008

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee has hired a married Roman Catholic priest with children from Florida - a first in the archdiocese's history. ...more

July 27, 2008

Reverberations from the Sunday sermon of a Roman Catholic priest who mocked Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton at Sen. Barack Obama's home church here continued to spread Friday, after the priest offered an apology and the archbishop of Chicago gave him a public reprimand for "partisan campaigning." ...more

May 31, 2008

Paul Roche, a noted English poet and translator who was among the last living associates of the Bloomsbury group, the skein of artists and writers twined around Virginia Woolf and her family, died Oct. 30 at his home in Soller, Majorca. He was 91. ...more

November 25, 2007