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IN THE GARDEN OF THE RIGHTEOUS

Posted on 05/27/202305/27/2023by HEATHER KING

By the end of the war, 90% of the children Irena Sendler had saved were dead. Trying to locate the parents of the survivors — most of whom had also died — was another herculean task.

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THE FRIENDS OF GRIFFITH PARK NEWSLETTER

Posted on 05/20/202305/20/2023by HEATHER KING

What I love most about the park is the smell of sage, plus the array of people: elderly ladies power-walking with their visors, tanned buff guys running shirtless, young people talking about their screenplays and restaurant jobs.

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“ALL CONSUMING” AT THE NORTON SIMON MUSEUM

Posted on 05/12/202305/12/2023by HEATHER KING

“Young Girl Holding a Basket of Fruit,” a mid-18th-century piece by François-Hubert Drouais, spells out the metaphor. One breast provocatively exposed, the girl in question holds up a bunch of dewy grapes, her expression telegraphing that there’s fruit — and then there’s fruit.

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SAN MIGUEL DE ALLENDE

Posted on 05/05/202305/05/2023by HEATHER KING

The architecture looks jerry-rigged, unplumbed, and held together with spackling compound, as if the crumbling arches and angel-bedecked stone overhangs might collapse at any minute.

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FROM PRODIGAL TO PRIEST

Posted on 04/28/202304/28/2023by HEATHER KING

So he did what any true child of God and follower of Christ would do. He called his mother, back home in Spain, and poured out his heart.

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WELL-READ

Posted on 04/22/202304/22/2023by HEATHER KING

“It’s not a Catholic group per se, but we look at literature through the lens of what’s good, true, and beautiful.”

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SING THE HOURS

Posted on 04/14/202304/14/2023by HEATHER KING

Rose’s enthusiasm is contagious. His conviction that God had a plan for his dark night of the soul is a consolation. That he took the resources at hand—his musical talents, his energy, his faithful heart—and molded them into an ongoing daily labor of love is a lesson and an inspiration to all of us.

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BLESSED ARE THE POOR IN SPIRIT

Posted on 04/08/202304/08/2023by HEATHER KING

I brought up the Gospel reading where the waves were threatening to overwhelm the boat the disciples were in, and Jesus’s response was to curl up and take a nap.

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KATHERINE BOO’S BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS

Posted on 03/31/202303/31/2023by HEATHER KING

Boo is firmly enshrined in my personal communion of saints, a subset of which is “Writers Who Are Catholic Without Being Catholic.” Would that more of us wrote with her curiosity, excellence, intelligence, willingness to suffer, and heart.

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THE ORCHARDS OF PERSEVERANCE

Posted on 03/25/202303/25/2023by HEATHER KING

In the silence and solitude, stripped of their previous lives, many of the men underwent a kind of disintegration of personality. The realization that they weren’t who they thought they were could be profoundly unsettling.

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THE FEAST OF ST. JOSEPH

Posted on 03/17/202303/18/2023by HEATHER KING

Notes Lev, “Despite his ubiquity … he has returned to the sidelines of artistic innovation. The statues go unnoticed; his placement at the Nativity, pro forma; his might and authority, almost forgotten. St. Joseph has become so visible as to have become invisible.”

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MONSIGNOR LORENZO ALBACETE’S CRY OF THE HEART

Posted on 03/11/202303/11/2023by HEATHER KING

When we cease to be shocked by the suffering of either ourselves or our neighbors, we become protagonists in an ongoing drama. We’re no longer bots in a humorless, culturally programmed wasteland. We become free.

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FIBER SCULPTOR JUDITH SCOTT

Posted on 03/05/202303/05/2023by HEATHER KING

Did those straitjacketed, swaddled structures represent the trauma of 35 years of institutionalization? Were they meant to telegraph that no matter how deeply the world tries to bury the human spirit, it will rise triumphant and exuberant?

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AUTHORITY AND FREEDOM

Posted on 03/02/202303/02/2023by HEATHER KING

A work of art, Perl insists, is “an imaginative achievement to which the audience freely responds.”

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