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Home: Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGE Core Subjects: Stories of Faith and Character: LINKS_PAGEArticles:A Great Moment In the Life of an Artist - Peggy NoonanTalking with James Caviezel after his meeting with the pope. Email This Article A hostage gives thanks - Sheila LiaugminasIngrid Betancourt plainly thought God had a hand in her liberation, but the signs went unremarked in most news coverage. Email This Article A Humbled Boss - Father Raymond de SouzaWhat lessons has the older Springsteen learned? Email This Article A knight passes - George WeigelThe ideal knight — courageous and honest, courteous and modest, loyal and pure of heart — isn't easy to find in any age. Email This Article A last assignment - Cathy CollinsI called him August 1st of last summer to say good-bye. It was a call I'd put off for weeks, voicing what three unsent letters wanted to convey. How can one say a final earthly goodbye to a good friend, a former teacher, a magnificent priest, now dying of cancer? Email This Article A Life of Purity - Philip LawlerShe spent her life caring for the sick and dying, yet she could not hide her impatience with the doctors whose efforts only postponed her own death. She was a virgin, yet millions called her Mother. She disdained the limelight, yet people all over the world knew her by a single name. Like all heroes of the Christian faith, Mother Teresa lived a life marked by contradictions, both superficial and profound. The depth of her religious commitment made it impossible for her to fulfill the expectations of a secular society. Email This Article A Life Worth Living - Christine RosenWhen Harriet McBryde Johnson died earlier this month at the age of 50 from a congenital neuromuscular disease, obituaries called her a "disability-rights activist." This is far too narrow a description of her life. Email This Article A Life's Lesson - Peggy NoonanWhen somebody dies, we tell his story and try to define and isolate what was special about it--what it was he brought to the party, how he enhanced life by showing up. Email This Article A living prayer of self-sacrifice - George WeigelShortly after Pope John Paul II’s difficult September pilgrimage to Slovakia, I received an e-mail from a Polish friend, a poet and longtime friend of the Pope’s. In language whose insight and sincerity of feeling more than compensated for its deficiencies in grammar, my friend described what he had witnessed: Email This Article A New Pope Must Face Old Problems - George WeigelPope Benedict XVI has celebrated his first Christmas as bishop of Rome, giving his blessing "to the city and the world." His retired brother, a priest and distinguished choir director, came to stay with him; perhaps the Ratzinger brothers played Mozart duets on the Steinway that the piano company recently donated to the papal apartment. Email This Article Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 ... [>>] Pages Updated On: 07-Aug-2008 - 15:35:40
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