We must realize that terror and terrorism didn’t just start some forty-odd years ago, in our “modern age.” It has always been a part of human history.
Joseph McAuley
Joseph McAuley is an assistant editor of America.
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The ‘real’ politics of the late Helmut Schmidt
What today’s politicians could learn from this incessant cigarette smoker, sailor and statesman-intellectual who endured a painful past while working toward a better though realistic future
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JFK’s Last Veterans Day
President Kennedy knew personally what war was and what it meant, for he had seen many of his comrades die in World War II.
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Yitzhak Rabin’s Last Song
Yitzhak Rabin warned about the growing threat of right-wing extremism, especially with regard to Israeli society.
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Days of prayer and candy corn
On the Feasts of All Souls and All Saints, God is trying to impart a lesson to each of us that we really need to think about what we were made for.
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Maureen O’Hara: “That Red Head of Hers Was No Lie!”
No more than any other person, whether famous or “ordinary,” Maureen O’Hara had her trials and tribulations and yet, somehow, she continued to thrive despite them.
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John Paul II and his path to sainthood
Little did Karol Wojtyla know on that moonlit night what lay ahead of him: the encyclicals, the meetings with statesmen and governmental leaders, the political and religious controversies.
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Standing up for sitting down
It was such a huge relief to know that I wouldn’t die from sitting down. I have often imagined dying from a lot of things, but sitting wasn’t one of them.
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The “People’s House” is being ripped apart.
Political infighting of recent weeks have put “The People’s House” in a very bad light
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Pope and President, Paul VI and Lyndon B. Johnson: Christmas on the Tiber, Texas Style
By the time pope and president met in the presidential suite at New York rsquo s Waldorf Astoria on October 4 1965 Paul VI and Lyndon Baines Johnson were relatively new in their respective positions Both men assumed their offices two years previously mdash in 1963 mdash on the death of their pred