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Bending our days to the building of good fires
- Feb 9, 2016
He was out there before I was on a frigid January morning, loading firewood from his barn to the back of his truck. I trotted over, guilty of having overslept. It was 7:30 and the agreed-upon-time had been an hour ago. He is a country man, a father and a

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What’s on Pope Francis’ plate for the first part of 2016
- Jan 7, 2016
ROME – Pope Francis is famously a pontiff who seems to be missing an “off” switch, but the first quarter of 2016 shapes up as a period so dense with activity it may tax even his prodigious reservoirs of energy. From foreign policy challenges to a potential turning point in

By John L. Allen Jr.

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