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The man behind the Boston Miracle

The Reverend Eugene Rivers knows a thing or two about rough neighbourhoods. Seventeen years ago, he moved from the pleasant groves of Harvard academe to fight the gangs on their own turf.

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When Winston Churchill Met Mark Twain

On the evening of December 12, 1900, in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, 26-year-old Lieutenant Winston S. Churchill arrived to speak about his adventures as a war correspondent in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War.

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A Close Encounter With the Angel of Death

The first vision that burns unforgettably in my mind is the simple one of a locked door: the back door of our house. As my wife and I left that morning for the hospital tests that would show what was wrong with our daughter, a small, dark insect in my mind buzzed with worry.

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I Saw a Saint at Sunset

Bestselling author Peggy Noonan brings her sharp observations, acute sensibility, warmth, and wit to the life of the pope and shows the personal effect his journey had upon her and millions of others throughout the world. Here is an excerpt from Peggy Noonan's latest, John Paul the Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father.

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A Cardinal Virtue

What do you do when you are locked out of your campus dormitory and it is midnight and raining and your wife is not feeling well and all of the motels and hotels in the area are filled because it is a graduation weekend?

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Agent of change

Before Rosa Parks was a civil-rights catalyst, she was a devoted Christian who memorized Scripture and taught Sunday school.

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A Pope of Quiet Surprises

When the newly elected Pope Benedict XVI first appeared on the loggia of St. Peter's Basilica this past April, he was smiling broadly - a surprise, perhaps, for those accustomed to the cartoon of Joseph Ratzinger as "God's Rottweiler."

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Father Richard John Neuhaus

The National Post is conducting a search to find Canada's most important "public intellectual." In today's installment, Father Raymond J. de Souza profiles Christian intellectual Father Richard John Neuhaus.

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Our Mission in Life Is to Love and Serve

In the summer of 1986, 21-year-old Susan Conroy left her family and friends and headed off to Calcutta, India alone to assist the Missionaries of Charity. "This is a story about how 'all things are possible with God,'" she writes. "It is a treasury of the lessons of love that I learned from Mother Teresa and her beloved poorest of the poor."

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