Young people fleeing in panic. Shots ringing out. Police swarming the building. Screams. Tears. Anxious parents huddled together. News media surrounding the carnage. This scene has become all too familiar in America. The recent mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., has once again devastated families. This Valentine Day’s massacre has broken the heart of the nation.
In the Cloisters, which are part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, there is displayed the Bury St. Edmunds Cross. This highly unusual altar cross dates from the 12th century. It is a Romanesque cross made of ivory with ninety-two intricately carved figures and ninety-eight inscriptions, adorning its front and back.
In the Cloisters, which are part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, there is displayed the Bury St. Edmunds Cross. This highly unusual altar cross dates from the 12th century. It is a Romanesque cross made of ivory with ninety-two intricately carved figures and ninety-eight inscriptions, adorning its front and back.
In an hour-long operation at Texas Children’s Hospital in October 2017, Dr. Michael Belfort, chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Dr. William Whitehead, a pediatric surgeon, performed a life-changing surgery on a tiny baby boy. He was 23 weeks in the womb since conception and diagnosed with spina bifida. Operating on the baby while still in the womb of his mother, the doctors corrected his congenital defect.
In the 1976 film classic Network, news anchor Howard Beale declared, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore.” At his urging, people everywhere threw open their windows and shouted the same grievance. Their angry scream now seems to fill the air.