Tag: Biographies

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Jimmy Carter: A Life After the Presidency

BY MICHAEL GOTH

The chapter on Jimmy Carter is appropriately titled “Peacemaker”, as Carter has worked hard to establish peace throughout the world.

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Maimonides: What Lessons Can He Teach Us Today?

BY ROBERT ROSENWALD

Maimonides would remind us that the Abrahamic religions are fundamentally Middle Eastern migrating siblings.

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That Arduous Love Affair: Sir John Betjeman and the Gift of Faith

BY KARL GUSTEL WARNBERG

Even though he failed at Divinity, his legacy has left us with undeniably rich insights into the gift of faith.

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There’d be No Santa Claus without St. Nicholas: Remembering the Saint behind the Legend

BY ANNA TROTTA GITHENS

Credit should be given where credit is due: Santa wouldn’t exist if St. Nicholas, the bishop of Myra, hadn’t existed.

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Anne, Princess of Variolation: The Story of a Royal Brush with Smallpox

BY CATHERINE CURZON

The practice of variolation involved taking a very small amount of infected tissue and introducing it into the body of a healthy patient.

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Editor Picks, Nonfiction

A Hair of Him for Memory: The Story of John Hampden’s Auburn Locks on the Antique Market

BY RICHARD W. HOOVER

I’ve been asked to include a word about business dealings relating to Hampden’s hair.

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St. John Paul II: The Heroic Pope

BY BISHOP ROBERT BARRON

As all of his biographers remind us, Karol Wojtyla came of age at one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century.

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For Those Who Believe: A Review of “The Song of Bernadette”

BY AVELLINA BALESTRI

Jennifer Jones is impeccably chosen for the part, combining rural innocence with spiritual wisdom in her portrayal of the saint.

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Sven Stolpe: The Swedish Waugh

BY KARL GUSTEL WARNBERG

Sven Stolpe could without exaggeration be compared to Evelyn Waugh. Both were authors, journalists, and hagiographers.

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The Many Faces and Phases of St. Francis of Assisi: From Soldier, to Beggar, to Troubadour, to Saint

THE TRAVELING TROUBADOUR

He is a saint for everyone, of every faith and walk of life, whose love for the Creator’s creatures was legendary.

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