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Thoughts on Dignitas Infinita | George Weigel

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What I Saw At Corrie Ten Boom’s Hiding Place | Jonathon Van Maren

...ten Boomby larry loftis william morrow, 384 pages, $16.49  Eighty... ...The 84-year-old watchmaker Casper ten Boom—known as “Haarlem’s Grand... ...A portrait of Isaac de Costa, a lawyer, poet, and Messianic Jew who... ...first into the Reformed Teacher Training College and then out to...

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The Left's Dark Money | Mark Bauerlein

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What Price Reform? | Avery Cardinal Dulles

...1995 encyclical Ut Unum Sint , Pope John Paul II invited suggestions... ...Quinn, in his 1996 Campion Lecture at Oxford University on “The Exercise... ...Articles by Avery Cardinal Dulles... ...Avery Dulles, S.J. , holds the Laurence J....

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Teresa of Ávila: The Progress of a Soul | Charlotte Allen

...High Mannerist statue that Gian Lorenzo Bernini carved of her in... ...St. Teresa of Ávila (1515“1582), the Spanish mystic, prolific spiritual... ...Sigmund Freud’s colleague Josef Breuer called her “the patron saint... ...of the frustrated bluestocking Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch ; Vita...

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Ruminations on the Early Church | John Wilson

...Two recent books cry out to be reviewed together: Nadya Williams’... ...s Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical... ..., Jay Green, and Eric Miller).... ...And yet Gupta, who is a professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary...

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What A Liberal Education Means | John Londregan

...John Londregan is professor of politics and international affairs... ...While one might become addicted to detective novels (or to haiku)...

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Radiant in the Gulag and Elsewhere | George Weigel

...In Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week, Pope Benedict XVI remarked on the... ...in her fine new book, Women of the Church: What Every Catholic... ...Jewish) form the bipartisan Lithuanian Catholic Religious Freedom... ...funeral Mass of John Paul II, whom the underground nun, resistance...

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Faith and Russian Literature | Gary Saul Morson

...Dostoevsky observed that if a European theory fascinated Russians... ...Russian intellectual history shows us where ideas may lead—and in Russia... ..., Life and Fate by the Jewish writer Vasily Grossman, was equally... ...The poet Osip Mandelstam died on the way to the Gulag....