History records many great men and women who would have been set aside without the aid of someone able to see past their faults.
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Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Memoir of secretly baptized Jewish boy under new scrutiny
The kidnapping became an international scandal and contributed to the anti-clerical sentiment sweeping across Europe.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Announcing the winner of the 2018 Anne Frank Essay Competition
Congratulations to James Chapman, a sophomore at Creighton Prep in Omaha, Neb.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
The Prim Presbyterian: the life of Woodrow Wilson
Wilson’s strong moral streak proved to be his greatest asset and his greatest failing.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
The return of the Chicano activist Brown Buffalo
Decades after Oscar Zeta Acosta’s disappearance in Mexico, a new documentary aims to reintroduce him in the context of the Chicano movement.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
50 years ago: The Catholic example of Cesar Chavez and Bobby Kennedy
A shared faith was a crucial reason Mexican-Americans came to trust the Kennedys.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Rev. Graham’s 1967 visit to Catholic college recalled as historic event
A Baptist preacher had never before been invited to speak at a Catholic institution.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
How the Buddha became a popular Christian saint
Two of medieval Europe’s most popular saints, Barlaam and Josaphat, were in fact Christianized versions of the Buddha.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Rev. Billy Graham, known as ‘America’s Pastor,’ dies at 99
More than anyone else, Graham built evangelicalism into a force that rivaled liberal Protestantism and Roman Catholicism in the U.S.
Posted inArchives, Politics & Society
The rise and fall of the Berlin Wall and why it matters today.
From now on, Berlin will live with the memory of the wall for longer than it lived with the wall itself.