Circa August 18, 1936, Santa Monica, Charles Robert Redford Jr. was born. He studied art in Paris and Italy in the late 1950s before returning to New York to pursue acting. By 1969, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, filmed across Utah and Colorado with Paul Newman, made him a global icon. In the 1970s, films like The Sting and The Great Gatsby cemented his style as effortlessly rugged and refined. Circa 1981, he founded the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, championing independent cin

It was a historic moment when King Charles stepped into the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Birmingham on September 3, 2025, becoming the first English monarch ever to visit the priestly community founded by St. John Henry Newman in 1848. After a warm welcome, Harrison and Archbishop Bernard Longley and Oratorian Father Ignatius Harrison guided the king through the Oratory’s sacred spaces: the church, a shrine with Newman’s relics, the sacristy where his vestments are kept, and the saint’s library