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Books
John B. BreslinJanuary 21, 2002

By any estimate the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz must be reckoned among the most important writers of the 20th century Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1980 professor of Slavic languages at the University of California at Berkeley for four decades freedom fighter for Poland in World War

Books
Albert J. LoomieJanuary 21, 2002

Eamon Duffy president of Magdalene College Cambridge and Reader in Church History at the university is widely known for his award-winning book The Stripping of the Altars 1992 in which he portrayed the pre-Reformation Catholic piety of the English laity and their resistance to the deliberate

The Word
John R. DonahueJanuary 21, 2002

The first of Matthew rsquo s five great discourses begins with an elegant and poetic set of blessings on those specially favored by God The first four speak of passive sufferers the poor the mourners the gentle but strong meek and those starving and thirsting for justice Keep in mind that Chr

The Word
John R. DonahueJanuary 21, 2002

She would have been a good woman rsquo the Misfit said if it had been someone there to shoot her every day of her life rsquo so ends Flannery O rsquo Connor rsquo s celebrated story A Good Man Is Hard to Find Like the Old Testament prophets and the parables of Jesus O rsquo Connor rsquo s often

News

Israeli Cabinet Votes to Halt Construction of Nazareth MosqueThe Israeli Security Cabinet voted 4 to 1 in favor of halting construction on a mosque adjacent to the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth [see Am., 2/12/01]. Meeting on Jan. 9, the cabinet instructed one of its members, Natan Sharans

Of Many Things
James Martin, S.J.January 21, 2002

Now that your Christmas gifts are stored away (or returned), the Christmas tree ornaments are tucked away (or broken), and the Christmas tree needles are successfully vacuumed from your carpet (or not—in my family we’re still discovering in our shag, recreation-room carpet the needles fr

John F. KavanaughJanuary 21, 2002

The first lines of the famous poem by John Donne seemed to haunt me as I read the final testaments—one of them even recorded on voice mail—of men about to die at the World Trade Center or in the skies above New York and Pennsylvania.The professions of love for spouse and family felt not