The park ranger peers up, pointing to the tops of the Lodgepole Pines standing like guards at the Rocky Mountain tree line. “See those pinecones at the top?” I squint, attempting to be mentally present while my body warns me my infant son an hour away will be hungry soon. “Those are called serotinous cones. […]

BRUNSWICK As part of its 300th anniversary celebration, First Parish Church is inviting the general public to an Open House to view and ask questions about its very historic and unique sanctuary. The Open House is set for Monday, May 29 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The church is located at the corner of […]

PHIPPSBURG The Popham Chapel will begin its seasonal schedule of worship services on Sunday, May 28. The Popham Chapel, located at 969 Popham Road near the end of Route 209 in Popham Village, will offer its interdenominational worship services at 10 a.m. each Sunday until the last Sunday in September. Rev. Ed McCartan will return […]

VATICAN CITY Pope Francis embraced weeping mothers, fathers and children with Huntington’s Disease on Thursday as he sought to remove the stigma of an incurable genetic disorder that causes such devastating physical and psychiatric effects that its sufferers are often shunned and abandoned. One by one, Francis blessed and greeted each of the 150 people […]

“For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin.” Hebrews 4:13 Sharing Our Humanity We are all more alike than we realize. Whether we are aware of it or not we […]

BRUNSWICK The Diocese of Portland has announced that Timothy Forti has been named the new principal at St. John’s Catholic School in Brunswick. Forti will succeed Dr. Martha Corkery, who is serving as interim principal at the school. Forti is currently the principal at St. Mary’s-St. Alphonsus Regional Catholic School in Glens Falls, New York. […]

GUEST PIECE BY STEPHANIE ALLAN REEVES I remember with vivid clarity the day we learned I had miscarried our first child. After four years of infertility, the thought of losing this long-awaited baby was terrifying. When the loss was confirmed, it seemed my tears would never stop. That was two decades ago. I now have […]

“Her children shall rise up and call her blessed.” Proverbs 31:28a Blessed Motherhood Mother’s Day will be here in a couple of days, and mothers everywhere will be showered with cards, gifts, flowers and special meals. For one day of the year mothers are put on a pedestal, and, in some cases, raised to angelic […]

SALT LAKE CITY The Mormon church, the biggest sponsor of Boy Scout troops in the United States, announced Thursday it is pulling as many as 185,000 older youngsters from the organization as part of an effort to start its own scouting-like program. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said the move wasn’t triggered […]

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican is celebrating the big-bang theory. That’s not as out of this world as it sounds. The Vatican Observatory has invited leading scientists and cosmologists to talk black holes, gravitational waves and space-time singularities as it honors the late Jesuit cosmologist considered one of the fathers of the idea that […]