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In the early 1990s, I was given lunch at the Roman headquarters of the Society of Jesus by two very–no, make that extremely–high-ranking Jesuits. The table-talk turned to a fascinating
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2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the Chair of Unity Octave, which has evolved into an annual pan-Christian week of prayer running from January 18-25. Prayer, it seems, is what
The God With an Infant’s Face
As my too-cute-to-be-true grandson, Master William Joseph Susil, careened around the house over Thanksgiving, exercising his rapidly expanding vocabulary and wreaking havoc on unsecured objects in his path, I couldn’t
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