Your environment has encouraged you to—according to that Jesuit principle—be men and women for others.
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Read: David Brooks’s message to the Boston College Class of 2021
‘You entered BC during one historical era which had one set of values. You graduate from BC at the start of a different historical era, with a new set of values, which you will write with the book of your lives.’
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The Sacramental Love Songs of Bachata’s Romeo Santos
The enchanted universe that Romeo alludes to is full of unpredictability and surprises.
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Bob Marley’s journey to justice, joy and (ultimately) to Christian faith
When I was unmoored from the church, Marley’s music and messianic faith told me: No, God has not forgotten you.
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Fifty years ago, my father leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times. It changed his life — and mine.
Half a century later, Robert Ellsberg looks back on his father’s famous release of the Pentagon Papers—and the consequences of that decision for his father, for him and for the nation.
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When America magazine rejected William Faulkner, J.K. Rowling and Taylor Swift from our pages
Going through old files, America’s editors found a few interesting submissions (and rejections).
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Dear Barack and Bruce: I’m a fan. But your new podcast is cringeworthy.
The new podcast by Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama seemed like it would be a compelling listening experience…but instead “Renegades” is often a squirmy mess.
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Rewatching ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is the perfect journey for the end of Lent (and quarantine)
Revisiting this classic story in this time of isolation offers a new perspective on quarantine, and indeed a new perspective on journeys themselves.
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Your guide to the four Jesuit schools in this year’s March Madness
A Jesuit university, Gonzaga, is the #1 seed in the N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament. But three other Jesuit schools—Creighton, Loyola Chicago and Georgetown—are also poised for deep March Madness runs.
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Why Joe Biden keeps quoting Seamus Heaney on when ‘hope and history rhyme’
In this season of discontent in American society, however, Heaney’s words have become emblematic of President Biden’s greatest political challenge: to act as healer-in-chief.