Word: compassioner
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Here and there a few bright flashes of Bemelmans' wit save Are You Hungry Are You Cold from being just another of the many cloudy apologias for the rebel cult of Depression-born, war-torn youths who cannot come to terms with a world they think their parents botched...
In the end, the author allows his hero only the beginnings of resignation. Wallant's book is a tour de force: what might seem a hopeless tale impresses by the clarity of its compassion.
Since a priest is also a man, his human appetites are apt to get in the way of his vocation. Graham Greene used this simple fact of religious life with searing effect in The Power and the Glory. In his second novel, Author William Michelfelder, onetime reporter on the New...
"Of course," chimed in the Rev. Pearce Higgins, vicar of Putney and vice chairman of the Church Fellowship for Psychical Studies, "the spirit is not a little fellow with horns and a tail. But if the human spirit is immortal-the basis of Christian teaching-why should not some spirits...
Miralhet was born in Montpellier around 1394, died in Nice some 60 years later. He had studios in both Marseille and Nice, and Louis Brea is known to have worked with him. Though the Virgin of Misericordia, which hangs in the Chapel of the Black Penitents in Nice, is Miralhet...