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July 28, 2009

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Plugged Into the Past

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A Special Calling

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Mending the Self

When I look back at my childhood, I realize that I was saturated with the very American messages about the joys of individualism. “You can be whatever you want to be,” my teachers and parents beamed, as they patted me on the back or placed a shiny gold star on the top of my homework. [...]

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No Woman, No Cry

Friday July 15th was a major turning point in this trip. As I sat in the front seat of an eight-passenger van with fellow student Pauline Talens to my left and then immediately to her left, Claudio Pantaleo, an ordained Franciscan monk from Urbino, I wondered what the day would hold.
After driving for well over an [...]

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Thy Will Be Done

When I met Claudio, a Franciscan monk, with whom I was to travel to Assisi this morning, I have to admit my first thought was Seriously? My idea of a monk was pretty close to the Benedictine Rule—quiet, sober, perhaps slightly intolerant men who had pledged their lives to God—not this energetic man who went [...]

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