Today the Supreme Court will hear arguments in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association concerning the forty-foot tall the Peace Cross at a traffic junction in Bladensburg, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C. Peace Cross in Bladensburg, Maryland, 2009.Ben Jacobson (Kranar Drogin) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D The cross is a memorial to American solders who died in World War I. It …
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Bush’s Cathedral Funeral was the Longest Yet
At two hours and nine minutes, Bush's service was a full forty minutes longer than either Reagan's or Ford's, and four times longer than the 1969 service at the cathedral for Eisenhower.
Bush’s Long Funeral and the Creed
The funeral of George H.W. Bush was the longest in the history of televised presidential funerals. It was forty minutes longer than either Ronald Reagan's or Gerald Ford's and four times as long as Dwight D. Eisenhower's.
The Apostles’ Creed Has a Big Day, Thanks to the Trumps’ Silence.
Besides giving Trump critics another opportunity to denounce him, the online discussion involved a number of interesting points about the creed.
Details on the Service for Matthew Shepard at Washington National Cathedral
While the twenty-year delay between Shepard's death on October 12, 1998, and the placement of his remains in the cathedral is unusual, it is not unprecedented.
