Holy Week services YOUNGSTOWN — St. Columba Cathedral in Youngstown will host Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord at 4 p.m. Saturday, and 10:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Sunday. Palms will be blessed and distributed at each Mass. The Holy Chrism Mass will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday with Bishop ...

Pope Leo XIV put the Rev. Edward Joseph Flanagan a step closer to possible sainthood Monday as he proclaimed the “heroic virtues” of the founder of Boys Town, a Nebraska home for at-risk youths that gained national renown and inspired an Oscar-winning biopic performance. With Leo’s ...

Bob Woodward’s next book will be an inside account of how the bestselling author and award-winning journalist came to write so many inside accounts. “Secrets: A Reporter’s Memoir” will offer Woodward’s take on some of the government leaders he has known and the news he has helped ...

The use of QR (“Quick Response”) codes have grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years. Designed in 1994 by a Japanese auto employee working for Denso, the QR code was designed as a better way to keep track of the company’s millions of parts. With bar codes already established in ...

Last fall, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary declared war on drug commercials. He wrote a viewpoint published in JAMA (Sept. 12, 2025) titled, “The FDA’s Overdue Crackdown on Misleading Pharmaceutical Advertisements.” He went further with a guest essay in The ...

Spending time with grandchildren can make seniors feel young and valued. Grandparents are often asked to step in as caregivers to the youngsters they love. The U.S. Department of Labor reports 2.74 million children in the United States were being raised by a grandparent in 2021, the most recent ...