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A tradition we have developed is to start the year with a Weekly Word on books we are reading. So here are a number of titles on Europe I read over the past year. I invite you to tell me…

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The Way of Love One thing struck me this week as I sorted through newspapers that had piled up at home during my recent travels. Religion is back! One prize-winning Dutch author, quoted in the secular NRC Handelsblad, suggests we…

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When an invitation came recently to address an ecumenical gathering in Vienna on how to respond to radical Islam, a huge painting I had seen this summer in the Vatican came to mind. The canvas showed the Polish King Sobieski…