[DOC] [TLE] Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus | Newseum [PAR] Eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon wrote a letter to the editor of New York's Sun, 
and the quick response was printed as an unsigned editorial Sept. 21, 1897. The 
work of veteran newsman Francis Pharcellus Church has since become history's 
most reprinted newspaper editorial, ... Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. [DOC] [TLE] 'Yes, Virginia': Read the iconic 1897 editorial - NY Daily News [PAR] Dec 24, 2014 ... Francis Pharcellus Church, an editorial writer for the New York Sun, wrote an 
iconic response to a letter ... 21, 1897, The New York Sun published what was to 
become the most widely read letter to a newspaper. ... Virginia O'Hanlon, a real 
girl, wrote a real letter. ... Thank God he lives and he lives forever. [DOC] [TLE] 'There is a Santa Claus' and 'he lives...' | Lubbock Online | Lubbock ... [PAR] Dec 24, 2001 ... Mr. Church pondered the letter, saw its possibilities  and, although he didn't ... 
upon thousands of occasions in American newspapers, large and small, from 
border to border and coast to coast. ... Thank God he lives, and he lives forever. ... 
point to Francis P. Church's editorial and prove there was Santa. [DOC] [TLE] New York Sun | Media Myth Alert [PAR] Posts about New York Sun written by W. Joseph Campbell. ... The newspaper's 
reply surprised and elated her, and her parents, Virginia said. .... Her letter finally 
reached Francis P. Church, a veteran editorial writer for the Sun who, according 
to an account by Edward P. Mitchell, .... Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. [DOC] [TLE] Yes, Virginia, a Thousand Times Yes - The New York Times [PAR] Sep 21, 1997 ... ''Please tell me the truth,'' Virginia wrote at the urging of her father, a New York 
City police surgeon and deputy coroner. ... Just try to quote from any other 
newspaper editorial. ... The author was Francis Pharcellus Church, a sardonic 
Columbia College graduate .... Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. [DOC] [TLE] New York Sun | In The Past Lane [PAR] Dec 16, 2012 ... Francis P. Church, the editor at The Sun who wrote the Yes, Virginia ... 
particularly those related to religion or theology, Church wrote the editorial. ... The 
Sun continued to publish Church's paean to innocence annually until the paper 
went under in 1950. Church ... Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. [DOC] [TLE] Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus - WNYC [PAR] Dec 8, 2010 ... In 1897, an 8-year-old girl from the Upper West Side wrote to the New ... In 
September 1897, Francis Pharcellus Church, a former Civil War ... Church's 
testament to the spirit of Christmas has the notable distinction of being the "most 
reprinted newspaper editorial. ... Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. [DOC] [TLE] 'Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus' | Thomas Jefferson Street | US ... [PAR] Dec 24, 2015 ... The paper's response, purportedly written by Francis Church but which appeared 
as an unsigned editorial is legendary. It may in fact be the most ... Thank God! He 
lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now,... [DOC] [TLE] My View | December 23, 2014 | Sonoran News [PAR] Dec 23, 2014 ... Editor Francis Pharcellus Church wrote the famous phrase Yes, ... (For more 
than a century the piece remains the most reprinted editorial ever to run in any 
newspaper in the ... Thank God! He lives, and he lives forever. [DOC] [TLE] Yes Virginia: Story Behind the Famous Editorial - ComputerImages [PAR] ... always find what you want in the New York Sun and her mother sometimes 
wrote to the paper's editors. ... Managing editor Edward Mitchell assigned it to 
one of his top writers, Francis P. Church. ... Thank God! he

Question: In a newspaper editorial, Francis Church wrote, "Thank God, he lives, and he lives forever"
Answer: Santa Claus