The art of Nelson Mandela
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The America archives project: bringing 100 years of content online
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Memories of Dorothy Day, and the Catholic Worker houses in New York
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On April 4, 1968, just hours before Martin Luther King Jr. was killed in Memphis, Tenn., Robert F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign made a stop in Muncie, Ind. He wanted to talk to the 9,000 students who had assembled in the gymnasium at Ball State University about the meaning of life. “W
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The Information Age has been eclipsed by instantaneous infotainment
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A move from Manhattan to Brooklyn, and getting to know a new parish
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Faith and obedience, Pope Benedict XVI reminded Americans, are not easy words to speak nowadays.
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Awaiting a spring that is coming slowly to the Big Apple, I fast-forward my thoughts and summon the words of the 18th-century poet James Thomson: “…who can paint/ like Nature? Can imagination boast,/ amid its gay creation, hues like hers?” Signs and wonders will soon abound in all
