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FaithIn All Things
Edward W. Schmidt, S.J.
In our August 1-8 issue America ran a current comment A New Tone in Rome about how Archbishop Jo atilde o Br aacute z de Aviz as the new head of the Roman congregation that oversees religious life has begun to address the mistrust and confrontational attitudes that accompanied the recent stud
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Barbara E. Reid
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Terrance Klein

What do you do when your education, at James Gillespie’s High School for Girls, only equips you to teach secondary English or to work in a department store, and yet you’re educated enough to feel the lugubrious weight of Edinburgh skies? If you’re Muriel Camberg, you take the first ticket out of Scotland, even if that means moving to Rhodesia as the wife of Sidney Oswald Spark, who later turns out to be a manic depressive, prone to violent outbursts. Having exchanged dark skies for wild savannah winds, and now the mother of a child, where do you find safety from the storm?

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Barbara E. Reid
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), Aug. 7, 2011
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Barbara E. Reid
Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time (A), Aug.14, 2011