One of the significant debates among students of early modern history has centered on the so-called General Crisis especially as related to European history which posits that there was a series of interconnected reasons why there were so many rebellions and wars in the mid-17th century including

In November 2004 the first U S military commission hearings in more than 60 years reconvened in Guant namo Bay Cuba Khalid Shaikh Mohammed the alleged mastermind of the Sept 11 attacks was in U S custody but he did not sit in the defendant rsquo s chair High-value detainees like Mr Mohamm

Khaled Hosseini is a bestselling author whose novels focus on Afghanistan rsquo s political religious social and cultural upheaval If his aim is to evoke sympathy for the tortured lives of Afghans he undoubtedly succeeds In his highly successful debut novel The Kite-Runner 2004 Hosseini focu

ldquo In our era the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action rdquo That claim by Dag Hammarskj ld is borne out in the books published in the series ldquo Orbis Modern Spiritual Masters rdquo The authors of these paperbacks are people of action whose holiness-spiritual

The enthusiastic reaction to Jorge Mario Bergoglio rsquo s choice of the name Francis underscores the ongoing power of the saints in shaping the Catholic sacramental imagination The new pope implicitly suggests that the things that mattered to St Francis mdash concern for the poor care of creatio

In the opening paragraph of Beyond the Walls Joseph Palmisano S J advances a startling claim Edith Stein rsquo s forced removal from her Carmelite monastery in 1942 and her subsequent murder at Auschwitz stand before us as ldquo a lsquo prophetic sign of our times rsquo rdquo and a model fo