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In this novel, set in October, 1958, the pope lies dying in Rome as, thousands of miles away, life carries on in St. Monica’s Girls’ School. Read more

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From 1948 to 1952 the lives of Trappist monk Thomas Merton and British novelist Evelyn Waugh were closely intertwined. Read more

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The excerpts from letters and journals in this volume show a rare example of the contemplative life and struggles in prayer of an active and prominent married couple with a shared thirst for God against a global background of tumultuous social and cultural change. Read more

Articles

  • When the English writer and artist Caryll Houselander was thirteen years of age, she had an experience that brought her face to face with the suffering of the world. The year was late 1914 or early 19...

  • During the summer of 1940, the writer and visual artist Caryll Houselander was going on thirty-nine.  Her writing and drawings appeared anonymously in three periodicals: the Jesuit-run Messenger of th...

  • Alfred Delp in Berlin’s “People’s Court”, January 8-9, 1945 One day in mid-January, 1945, the Jesuit Alfred Delp wrote to his secretary from his cell in Berlin’s Tegel Prison: “I’ve begun writing a fe...

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