Word: catholicization
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Edward Gorey was born in Chicago in 1925, to a Roman Catholic newspaper report and Episcopalian mother. He began to read and draw at a very early age; he first picked up a pencil at only 18 months, drawing passing trains. But he told the Christian Science Monitor that he...
Coles befriended Catholic activist Dorothy Day after meeting the pacifist egalitarian at her soup kitchen, and he wound up contributing to her journal, The Catholic Worker.
Later in the 1960s, he openly supported Fathers Daniel and Philip Berrigan--brothers and renegade Catholic priests who opposed the Vietnam War.
McAuliffe learned the art of banter across the dining-room table of the modest home he grew up in in southwest Syracuse, N.Y. Terence Richard McAuliffe, the baby of the family, took an early interest in politics. Father Jack, treasurer of the Onondaga County Democratic Party, took the boy to...
Wrong. Rudy Giuliani's decision to drop out wasn't a huge surprise--the New York City mayor is battling prostate cancer and his wife just hired a fancy divorce lawyer--but it was a personal drama of operatic proportions, a thunderclap so loud that mere politics couldn't account...