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Article: A View from the Ridge: The Testimony of a Twentieth-Century Christian.
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- January 24, 1997
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In the little room in the house on the Piazza di Spagna in Rome where the English romantic poet John Keats died, there are displayed for the public replicas of both his life mask and death mask. They are wondrous artifacts to behold because they bridge something of the distance between Keats' time and our own. Of these, it is his death mask that is more beautiful, imparting a sense of perfection and completion to the brief yet intense years that Keats spent on this earth. It is not sad. It is a testament to a full life and to the human spirit that animated it.
The face of a life, especially that of a seeker of beauty and truth, no matter how young or old, ...
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... ... much food for thought. "I want to see how we can break the cycle of segregation. That was why I came to Coleraine to hear views and examples of how we build a shared society in Northern Ireland. Guns now remain largely silent. Political institutions ...
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