Genuflection is the act of putting the right knee in a kneeling position in order to show respect and absolute loyalty. It was usually to the lord of the manor. If the king were present, it was to the ...

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, explained one of the expressions of reverence Catholics make in church — genuflection — and why they make this sign. In a video posted on X, the ...

Make this your preferred source to get more updates from this publisher on Google. In a daily landscape riddled with notions of religion and religiosity, where impeachment trials begin with a prayer ...

To her friends, Sister Margaret McEntee, of the Sisters of Charity of New York, is Sister Peggy. In 1956, when she was a twenty-one-year-old rookie teacher at St. Anthony School, in the Bronx, she was ...

“Genuflection in the Sun” by S. J. Perelman was published in the print edition of the August 29, 1953, issue of The New Yorker.

The moment I was told about the Irish habit of tipping the cap to the first magpie one encounters in the course of a day and saying to him "Good morning, sir," I knew I would be in for the long haul.