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Morningâs Minion
Gerard Manley Hopkins: A Life by Paul Mariani Viking, 496 pages, $34.95 Too often, Gerard Manley Hopkins is lost in the halo-glow of hagiography” Glory be to God for...
Contemptus Mundi and the Love of Life
Just down the road from the lively Piazza Barberini is a Capuchin church, Santa Maria della Concezione. Practically every Roman street corner boasts some little church, supported—or sometimes squashed—between...