Joyce spent thousands of hours with the Jesuits, who figure prominently in his debut novel.
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Remembering martyrs for their humanity, as well as their faith
Maura Clarke might appear to have been a loser in the fight for human dignity. Not so.
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Hospice chaplain Kerry Egan reflects on the stories and grace she has encountered in her work.
A hospice chaplain learns that people carry burdensome secrets and regrets, and the prospect of dying makes them want to unload them.
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Three centuries of Romanov rule brought Russia, in fits and starts, toward modernity.
The 19th century witnessed an intriguing range of tsars, from reformist to reactionary or a combination of both.
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Politics with vigilance, not vitriol: Heeding Cathleen Kaveny’s call
The brutal and bruising campaign of 2016 is finally behind us, but Kaveny’s call for a politics infused with vigilance, not vitriol, has by no means outlived its usefulness.
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Too often the history of El Salvador’s civil war lets the United States off too easily
For some, El Salvador was a shameful episode, in which Washington backed the perpetrators of a death squad bloodbath in a failed attempt to militarily defeat a homegrown leftist insurgency.
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America’s love-hate relationship with the nuclear bomb
This is not a history we Americans like to ponder.
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The passionate lives of Dan and Phil Berrigan
How do you carry on when a majority of your own church, clerical and lay, denounces you?
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The importance of education regarding vocation for undergraduates.
Vocation turns out to be critical not only for life beyond college, but for life within college.
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What did Peter O’Toole accomplish in his nearly 80 years on earth? This biographer tried to find out.
Yes, Peter O’Toole did have a life after “Lawrence of Arabia.”