Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Living in Western diplomatic privilege with cooks and maids and drivers, the women in the new novel “Absolution” spend their days attending luncheons, lectures and cocktail parties as the Vietnam War ...
In 1963, Alice McDermott reminds us in her novel “Absolution,” both the president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and the president of Vietnam, Ngo Dinh Diem, were Catholics. This fact holds a ...