Bill Clinton's "Map Room" Speech (1998): Churches and Confession It was on this date, August 17, 1998, that then-President Bill Clinton made his famous Map Room speech – a confession that he did indeed have inappropriate sexual relations with White House intern Monica Lewinski. Although not a Roman Catholic, President Clinton's simultaneously regretful and defiant […]

The Pope is infallible, not impeccable, says the "Catholic Encyclopedia."

It was some consolation to the survivors of the largest pogrom in human history that a Jewish state was formed on this date in 1948.