Walter F. Mondale was the embodiment of a kind of decency and civility that has all but disappeared from the American political scene.
Obituary
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Hans Küng, influential Vatican II theologian censured by John Paul II, dies at 93
Hans Küng was first in flair and media savviness among 20th-century theologians.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Remembering Janice McLaughlin, the Maryknoll sister who found freedom in the struggle for African liberation
Even as a child she sensed that Africa was her destiny, the roots of her mission vocation found in a fourth-grade geography textbook that pictured giraffes loping across the plain
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Remembering Father Enda McDonagh, a ‘critical but loyal’ Irish theologian who questioned ‘Humanae Vitae’
Rev. Enda McDonagh served the Irish church as a compassionate priest and renowned theologian. He died on Feb. 24.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Remembering Margaret Snyder, Catholic feminist pioneer
A prominent figure in United Nations efforts to help women in Africa escape poverty, Margaret Snyder was inspired by her parents and by Catholic mentors from her hometown.
Posted inArts & Culture, News
Hank Aaron, baseball’s one-time home run king (and a Catholic convert), dies at 86
Hank Aaron, who endured racist threats with stoic dignity during his pursuit of Babe Ruth’s home run record and gracefully left his mark as one of baseball’s greatest all-around players, died Friday.
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Amo, Amas, Amat: Remembering Father Reginald Foster, the Vatican’s legendary Latin expert
Reggie Foster taught generations of students in Rome, keeping Latin alive and living a colorful, inspiring life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Remembering John le Carré, who knew that deep down, we all want to be secret agents
John le Carré, who died earlier in December, was a wildly popular spy novelist—and one of the English world’s finest fiction writers of the last half-century.
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Remembering Bill Barry, S.J.
William A. Barry, S.J. Bill was 90 years old when he died at the Jesuit infirmary at Campion Center in Weston, Mass., on Saturday.
Posted inArts & Culture, Last Take
Remembering Jim Dwyer: Jesuit-educated, Pulitzer Prize winner and the last bard of New York
The death of renowned reporter Jim Dwyer is a loss for New York City—as well as for all the people he influenced, informed, or touched in other ways over the course of an impressive life.