James Bowman
Based on real people and real events which took place in 1994, The Straight Story, directed by David Lynch and…
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George Weigel
Witness To Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II by George Weigel is as comprehensive a biography of its subject as can be hoped for while the Pope still lives. Weigel, a journalist who came to the Pope’s attention after the publication of his book, The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism, wrote Witness To Hope with his subject’s encouragement and assistance. Weigel had unprecedented access to the Pope’s correspondence (with, among others, world leaders including Mikhail Gorbachev). He reports lengthy conversations with many members of the Pope’s inner circle, and he occasionally reveals vivid details of the Pope’s daily life (for example, at the beginning of each day, the Pope’s adviser’s hear moans and groaning from John Paul’s solitary prayers in his private chapel).
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Syndicated Column / October 1, 1999
Michael Cromartie
Dr. Nathan Hatch, Provost of the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Grant Wacker, professor of history of religion at Duke University Divinity School, and Hanna Rosin, religion reporter for the Washington Post, spoke at the September 1999 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of evangelicalism and religious freedom in America.
George Weigel, distinguished senior fellow at the Ethics & Public Policy Center, and Kenneth Woodward, religion editor for Newsweek, spoke at the September 1999 Faith Angle Forum on the subject of Catholic worshipers and dogma upon entering the 21st century.
Ernest W. Lefever
The Color of Truth: McGeorge and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998, 496 pp.) In…
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