LAST WORD 'Un Petit Saint' Mary Frances Coady n 1946, two years before Thomas Merton's book The Seven Storey Mountain brought Trappist monasteries into popular focus, a twenty-one-year-old man...
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THE LAST WORD Desert Hospitality Mary Frances Coady I'm sitting on the hotel step with today's Scripture readings in front of me when Salah, the Bedouin guide, arrives. It's Sunday, and there are...
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The Last Word A Resister Mary Frances Coady One day in early January 1945, Freya von Moltke walked through bomb-gutted Berlin to visit Roland Freisler, the judge presiding at the show...
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HITLER & THE JESUITS Three resisters & the price they paid Mary Frances Coady One day in August 1944, a German priest named Lothar Konig slipped away from the Jesuit house of studies near Munich...
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'!HE LAS? WOR1D SHUNNED Mary Frances Coady I n the small chapel overlooking one of the waterways that run like ribbons into the Pearl Delta in southern China, someone is playing a one-finger...
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THE LAST WORD CHRIST RISES AT TAIZE Mary Frances Coady Whenever I think of Taize, I remember the long outdoor lines for meals, the sandy soil underfoot during the sprint from the...
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T.S. ELIOT AT ONE HUNDRED: A REFLECTION Little Gidding: 'Where prayer has been valid' MARY FRANCES COADY The road to Little Gidding, in the heart of Cambridgeshire, a remote corner of England,...
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