Feb 19th, 2010 · Mother Mary MacKillop, who died in 1909, founded an order that built dozens of schools for impoverished children across the Australian Outback in the 1800s, as well as orphanages and clinics for the needy.
Aug 28th, 2009 · Chef Wylie Dufresne, the owner of New York City restaurant wd-50, experiments with food, literally. He has lab notebooks detailing what certain chemicals do to certain dishes. Science Friday stopped in to see him prepare his scientific spin on eggs Benedict.
Jul 10th, 2009 · President Obama has his first meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on Friday. The personalities of the president and the pope could not be more different, but both are in favor of expanding health care and have recently reached out to the Muslim world.
Jun 19th, 2009 · The reluctant lovers Beatrice and Benedict, from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, take center stage in a vibrant opera by Berlioz, from the Champs-Elysees Theatre in Paris.
May 12th, 2009 · Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday visited two of the key religious sites of Islam and Judaism: Jerusalem's Temple Mount and the Western Wall. The pilgrimage has revealed just how delicate a political minefield the Holy Land can be for the pope.
May 12th, 2009 · Officials at Israel's Holocaust memorial faulted the pope for not apologizing nor using the words "murder" or "Nazis" during his speech at the site.
Mar 23rd, 2009 · Hundreds of thousands of people braved scorching heat to hear Pope Benedict XVI in person near the Angolan capital Sunday. The open-air Mass capped Benedict's first trip to Africa as pontiff.
Jan 19th, 2009 · Longtime civil rights activist Rev. Joseph Lowery will deliver the benediction at President-elect Obama's inauguration Tuesday. He tells NPR's Michele Norris it is an honor "beyond his wildest dreams" to participate in the inauguration of the nation's first black president.