Three Fires, Three Skylines
If it learns from the mistakes of New York and London, Paris could rebuild impressively.
By CONRAD BLACK, Special to the Sun | April 19, 2019
https://www.nysun.com/foreign/how-notre-dame-echoes-another-harrowing-fire/90655/
Next to St. Peter's Basilica and the Palace of Versailles, Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is probably the most eminent building in all Europe, and of course, is older than the first two. It was saddening and even terrifying to see so much of a splendid building that has endured 856 years consumed in flames.
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Roland Millare
“Nothing is more disconcerting, it seems to me, than to enter a home or apartment in which there are no books and no place for books, no sign a book had ever been there. It always seems like a kind of desecration to me, even though I am perfectly aware that bookless people can also […]
By Tracey Rowland on Apr 18, 2019 11:48 am
The marketing blurb on the book When Jesuits were Giants begins with the statement: No one in France or the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century doubted that the Jesuits, loved [...]
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Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., has died at the age of 91
By Carl E. Olson on Apr 17, 2019 05:16 pm
Fr. James V. Schall, the prolific and much-beloved Jesuit, professor and author, died earlier today. His family states that “he was comfortable and at peace” at the time of his death. He was born in [...]
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Midafternoon last Wednesday, on the eve of the Paschal Triduum, I got word that Fr. James Vincent Schall, S.J., had died. The news did not come as a complete surprise; a few days earlier I heard that he was going to be moved from a hospital in Los Gatos, California to a hospice. My first […]
Last week, a good and holy priest went to his eternal reward after a long and distinguished life as a teacher and writer. Father James V. Schall, S.J., died of pneumonia at the age of 91 in the company of family on April 17, 2019. A few months earlier he had been hospitalized much to […]