The Pilgrims celebrated a harvest festival with their Native American neighbors in 1621 what we often call the first Thanksgiving. The Foundation Press, Inc. Disillusioned with orthodox Church of ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that Americans eat more than 46 million turkeys on Thanksgiving each year. According to Texas A&M University, pilgrims at their first thanksgiving did ...

For the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Massachusetts, a three-day feast in the autumn of 1621 was a thanksgiving for a successful harvest. The Wampanoag Indians, who had taught the pilgrims how to plant ...

“Chronicles of the Pilgrim Fathers,” so it’s unlikely that George Washington knew of it on Nov. 26, 1758, when he gave thanks with Gen. John Forbes near the smoldering ruins of Fort Duquesne ...

The first Thanksgiving was observed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1621. A good autumn harvest led the Pilgrims to hold a feast to give thanks that lasted for three days. On October 3, 1789 ...

For instance, there’s nothing like the mass killing of some bird to show thanks. This is even more misguided given that the Pilgrims and Indians didn’t even have turkey at the first Thanksgiving.

For centuries, pilgrims came to Assisi to walk in the footsteps of a saint who preached to birds, embraced poverty and ...

The diocese will be opening its parishes and homes to travelers — especially for the Jubilee of Teenagers, which will ...

Pope Francis is brought on stage in St. Peter's Square by his nurse, Massimiliano Strappetti, at the end of the closing Mass ...