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...John Paul II constantly reminded us of the hope that is our Christian religion, the hope that the goodness we attempt to live may lead us in the direction of Truth, that the countercultural ends we serve may be what is the best and the good. Reminding us, as Saint Paul did, that Christians are to be in this world but not of it, this Pope challenged us to be uncomfortable with our world and to humbly seek Truth itself—not merely what was politically or socially popular...
...drew enormous, bloc-shaking crowds. On the next trip, after he told the restive populace to "be not afraid" and declared in the holy town of Czestochowa that "man cannot remain with no way out," the new Solidarity free-trade-union movement made him its virtual patron saint, flying the papal flag at the gate of the Gdansk shipyard...
...youngest of six runners from the United States who competed in the IAAF World Junior Cross Country Championships in Saint-Etienne/Saint-Galmer, and, with a time of 22:12, Scherf managed to place 18th individually, leading the team to a fourth-place finish...
...lovely that so unpromising a holiday—one that is meant to honor a Catholic saint, one that has come to honor a particular nationality—should prove so unifying. Part of the appeal is that it demands little of participants, other than wearing green and drinking; there are none of the expectations associated with Valentine’s Day, none of the vaguely patriotic obligations that cling to the Fourth of July, none of the gift-buying, and little of the overt religious trappings of Christmas...
Rees moved to Brooklyn in 2000, where he continued drawing and trying to sell homemade compilations of his strips. He still writes updates for both original comics to this day, and he has added a new, religiously-themed absurdist cartoon called “Adventures of Confessions of Saint Augustine Bear” about a bison, a bear, and a hunter obsessed with killing them...