Omar Saif Ghobash, ambassador of the United Arab Emirates to Russia, has written a series of essays to his two teenage sons Saif and Abdullah.
Books
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
A Mass Murder of Children Everyday
Every day, an average of seven children are shot and killed the United States.
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Evelyn Waugh: addicted to alcohol and sex, haunted by God
Waugh was never reconciled to the use of vernacular in the Catholic liturgy, for which he had gained great devotion for 30 years.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Discerning good and bad spirits: wisdom from a Jesuit spiritual writer
Humans are called to praise, reverence and serve God through our every decision and action.
Posted inCulture, Politics & Society
Can Obama’s policies survive a Trump regime?
After decades of books that described presidential campaigns as thrill rides, political scientists have begun to push back.
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A small land with an outsized role
While it has long been a gleam in the Russian eye, it has been a thorn for Western diplomacy.
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The Native American Holy Man who did not surrender all to the Jesuits
What Black Elk taught his people was to depend instead on something harder to take away than guns, the trust that prayers in their own language, delivered in their own way, would reach the god they addressed as Tunkashila.
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Reimagining Catholic devotion to Mary: Who is she and what is her role in my life?
“Who is Mary, what is her role in my life and what could I do to get to know her better?”
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Why James Joyce said he was a Jesuit (but rebelled against the Catholic Church)
Joyce spent thousands of hours with the Jesuits, who figure prominently in his debut novel.
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Novelist Ron Hansen on what it means to be an Ignatian deacon.
The Spiritual Exercises ‘is a work of psychological genius that can only help one live a fuller, richer life,’ Hansen says.