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List of converts to the Catholic Church

Index List of converts to the Catholic Church

The following is an incomplete list of notable individuals who converted to Catholicism from a different religion or no religion. [1]

622 relations: A Canticle for Leibowitz, A Guide for the Perplexed, A Severe Mercy, Abby Johnson (activist), Academi, Academy Award for Best Actress, Academy Awards, Adrienne von Speyr, Afonso I of Kongo, Agni Pratistha, Alasdair MacIntyre, Alban Roe, Albert Küchler, Alec Guinness, Alexander Briant, Alexis Carrel, Alfred Döblin, Alfred Noyes, Alfred S. Regnery, Alice B. Toklas, Alice Meynell, Alice Thomas Ellis, Allen Hunt, Allen Tate, American Civil War, Ammon Hennacy, Amnesty International, Analytic philosophy, André Frossard, Andrea Bocelli, Andrew Burnham (priest), Angelus Silesius, Ann Widdecombe, Anna Abrikosova, Annales Ecclesiastici, Anorexia nervosa, Anthony Rhodes, Anthony Ross (priest), Anti-Catholicism, Antonia Fraser, Antonio Ligabue, Anwar Sadat, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Arcadio Huang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Arnold Lunn, Asia Booth Clarke, Aubrey Beardsley, Audrey Assad, Augusta Theodosia Drane, ..., Auguste Comte, Auguste Rodin, Augustus Pugin, Austrian School, Avery Dulles, Ayn Rand, Banine, Barlaam of Seminara, Barry Ulanov, Barthold Nihus, Baylor University, Benedict Gregorios, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Bernard Nathanson, Bernardo the Japanese, Beryl Bainbridge, Bill Veeck, Biochemistry, Biologist, Bishop of London, Black Elk, Black Narcissus, Bobby Jindal, Bobby Jones (golfer), Brent Robbins, Brideshead Revisited, British Union of Fascists, C. S. Lewis, Calgary Herald, Calvinism, Canon law of the Catholic Church, Canossians, Cardinal (Catholic Church), Carlism, Carlton J. H. Hayes, Catherine Doherty, Catholic Association of Performing Arts (UK), Catholic Church, Catholic funeral, Catholic University of Ireland, Catholic Worker, Cecil Chesterton, Charles II of England, Charles Péguy, Chelsea Olivia Wijaya, Cherry Boone, Chris Haw, Christian anarchism, Christian democracy, Christian existentialism, Christina Rossetti, Christina, Queen of Sweden, Christopher Davenport, Church of Christ, Scientist, Church of Ireland, Clare Boothe Luce, Claude McKay, CNBC, Come to the Stable, Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Congregation of Our Lady of Sion, Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Conrad Black, Consequentialism, Conservatism in the United States, Constantine the African, Coral Browne, Corriere della Sera, Council of Trent, Countess of Ségur, Coventry Patmore, Creighton Abrams, Czechs, Czesław Miłosz, Dames of Malta, Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, Dave Brubeck, David Golder, David Kirk (activist), David Paul Drach, David Silk (priest), David Stove, David-Augustin de Brueys, Dawn Eden Goldstein, Dean Koontz, Deathbed conversion, Delia Smith, Demetrios Kydones, Demographics of Indonesia, Dewi Rezer, Diana Dors, Diana, Princess of Wales, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Dilwyn Lewis, Diplomat, Discalced Carmelites, Djibril Cissé, Dominican Order, Donald Nicholl, Dorothy Day, Dutch Schultz, E. F. Schumacher, E. Howard Hunt, E. T. Whittaker, Eastern Orthodox Church, Edith Sitwell, Edith Stein, Edmund Campion, Edmund Gennings, Edwin Barnes, Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales, Elinor Brent-Dyer, Elizabeth Ann Seton, Elizabeth Bentley, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth Hesselblad, Ellen Gates Starr, Elliot Griffin Thomas, Emily Coleman, Empress Dowager Wang (Southern Ming), Encyclopedia Americana, Enrique of Malacca, Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande, Eric Gregory Award, Erik Prince, Ernest Hemingway, Esquire (magazine), Ethan Allen, Etsuro Sotoo, Eugene Genovese, Euroscepticism, Eustace White, Evangelical Theological Society, Evelyn Waugh, EWTN, Exarch, Fanny Allen, Farouk of Egypt, Father Damien, Fathia Ghali, Faye Dunaway, Feng shui, Ferdinand Magellan, Filipinos, Finns Party, First Things, Fordham University, Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, Frances Margaret Taylor, Frances Shand Kydd, Francis Arinze, Francis Asbury Baker, Francis Hsu, Francis J. Beckwith, Francis Libermann, Frank Sheed, Frederick Charles Shrady, Frederick Copleston, Frederick Lucas, Frederick Oakeley, Frederick William Faber, French people, French Resistance, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Staphylus, Fuad I of Egypt, Fulton J. Sheen, G. E. M. Anscombe, G. K. Chesterton, Gabriel Marcel, Gary Cooper, Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York), Göran Stenius, Gene Wolfe, Geoffrey Fisher, George Mackay Brown, George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, Georgiana Fullerton, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gertrude Stein, Gerty Cori, Global village, Globalism, Godfrey Kneller, Gothic Revival architecture, Graham Greene, Graham Leonard, Graham Sutherland, Greg Abbott, Gregory Palamas, Gulag, Gustav Mahler, Gwen John, H. H. Holmes, Halldór Laxness, Halliday Sutherland, Harm Klueting, Hasekura Tsunenaga, Hawaii, Heinrich Schlier, Henri Spondanus, Henry Edward Manning, Henry Ford II, Henry James Coleridge, Henry Luce, Henry Morse, Heretics (book), Hesychast controversy, Hierarchy of the Catholic Church, Hud (1963 film), HuffPost, Hull House, Human rights, Ignace Lepp, Ignatius Spencer, Irène Némirovsky, Irreligion, Isaac Hecker, Islam, Ismaël Bullialdus, Israel Zolli, Ivan Gagarin, Jacques Maritain, James Collinson, James Hope-Scott, James Longstreet, James McAuley, James Patterson Lyke, James Roosevelt Bayley, Jan Lipšanský, Jean Mohamed Ben Abdeljlil, Jean-Baptiste Ventura, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Marie Lustiger, Jeb Bush, Jeffrey Hamm, Jeffrey N. Steenson, Jews, Jiao Bingzhen, Joan Bartlett, Johann Christian Bach, Johann Emanuel Veith, Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Johann Pistorius, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Jørgensen, Johannes Vermeer, John Adams (Catholic martyr), John B. Tabb, John Brande Morris, John Broadhurst, John C. Wright (author), John Ching Hsiung Wu, John Dryden, John Foster Dulles, John Gennings, John Gother, John Henry Newman, John Hungerford Pollen (senior), John Lawson Stoddard, John M. Oesterreicher, John Michael Talbot, John Michael Wright, John Sergeant (priest), John Sparrow David Thompson, John Taylor Coleridge, John Tyler, John Wayne, John Wilkes Booth, John Willem Gran, John Woodcock (martyr), Joseph Dutton, Joseph Lane, Joseph Pearce, Joseph Rovan, Joseph Saurin, Josephine Bakhita, Joyce Kilmer, Judaism, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Karel Schulz, Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang, Karl Landsteiner, Karl Stern, Kaspar Ulenberg, Kasper Franck, Kateri Tekakwitha, Katharine, Duchess of Kent, Keichō, Keith Newton (prelate), Kim Dae-jung, Kimberly Hahn, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Ireland, Kingdom of Scotland, Kirsten Powers, Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning, Knut Ansgar Nelson, Knute Rockne, Kuusankoski, Laetare Medal, Larry Kudlow, Laura Ingraham, Le Vin de solitude, Leo Allatius, Leonid Feodorov, Levi Silliman Ives, Lewis Bayly, Li Yingshi, Lila Rose, List of Catholic authors, List of Catholic Church artists, List of Catholic philosophers and theologians, List of converts to the Catholic Church from Islam, List of jazz pianists, List of Major Archbishops of Thiruvananthapuram, Livets Ord, Lola Falana, Lord Nicholas Windsor, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Lou Tseng-Tsiang, Louis Bouyer, Louis Fan (convert), Love in the Ruins, Magdi Allam, Maggie Gallagher, Malay race, Malcolm Muggeridge, Malcolm Turnbull, Margaret Anna Cusack, Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, Marie-Théodor Ratisbonne, Mark Barkworth, Marshall McLuhan, Martin Eisengrein, Marxism, Mary Lou Williams, Mason Proffit, Materialism, Maurice Baring, Meletius Tipaldi, Melkite Greek Catholic Church, Meriol Trevor, Methodism, Metronome magazine, Michael Dummett, Michael Shen Fu-Tsung, Missionaries of Charity, Moritz Gudenus, Mortimer J. Adler, Mother Mary Alphonsa, Moyamensing Prison, Muriel Spark, Nathaniel Hawthorne, National Conference for Community and Justice, National Front (UK), National Organization for Marriage, Nazarene movement, Nazli Sabri, Neustadt International Prize for Literature, New Oxford Review, Newt Gingrich, Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, Nicolas Steno, Nirmala Joshi, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, O Come, All Ye Faithful, Oblate, Oglala Lakota, Orestes Brownson, Orthodox Judaism, Orthodoxy (book), Oscar Wilde, Oswald Mosley, Oxford Movement, Pacifism, Passionists, Pat Boone, Patricia Neal, Patristics, Paul Richardson (priest), Paul Schenck, Paul Williams (Buddhist studies scholar), Pauline Pfeiffer, Paulist Fathers, Penelope Fitzgerald, Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, Peter Benenson, Phenomenology (philosophy), Physician, Poet, Point Park University, Poor Servants of the Mother of God, Pope John Paul II, President of South Korea, President of the United States, Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Princess Irene of the Netherlands, Prose, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, Puteri Indonesia, Qing dynasty, Quota Borda system, R. J. Stove, Rajah Humabon, Rajah Tupas, Ralph Sherwin, Recollects, Rector of the University of Edinburgh, Regina Derieva, Reinhard Hütter, Reinhard Sorge, Religion, Religious conversion, Religious sister, Rianti Cartwright, Richard Crashaw, Richard Gilmour, Richard John Neuhaus, Richard Simpson (writer), Righteous Among the Nations, RMS Titanic, Robert Bork, Robert Hugh Benson, Robert Lowell, Robert Novak, Robert Sutton (martyr), Robert William Wilcox, Rod Dreher, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Atlanta, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris, Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland, Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus, Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong, Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo, Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers, Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Thomas, Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm, Ronald Firbank, Roy Campbell (poet), Ruffa Gutierrez, Rumer Godden, Russell Kirk, Russian Greek Catholic Church, Russian symbolism, Saint, Sally Read, Sam Brownback, Sandro Magister, Sarah Peter, Scalawag, Scientism, Scott Hahn, Secondary conversion, Secretary of state, Sheldon Vanauken, Siegfried Sassoon, Sigi Wimala, Sigiswald Kuijken, Sigrid Undset, Simeon Vratanja, Sir Henry Fletcher, 3rd Baronet, of Hutton le Forest, Sister Gregory Kirkus, Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel, Small Is Beautiful, Society of Jesus, Sophie Swetchine, South Korea, Southern Ming, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Stephan Kuttner, Su Xuelin, Suite française (Némirovsky novel), Sultan, Supreme Court of the United States, Susan Hayward, Sven Stolpe, Sylvester Horton Rosecrans, Syriac language, Tabariji, Takashi Nagai, Tennessee Williams, Texas Monthly, The Angel in the House, The Bells of Nagasaki, The Chinese Convert, The Daily Telegraph, The Devil in the White City, The Diddakoi, The Everlasting Man, The Highwayman (poem), The medium is the message, The Moviegoer, The New York Times, The Power and the Glory, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel), The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, The Tablet, Theodor Haecker, Theology, Thirty-nine Articles, Thomas Aufield, Thomas Bailey (priest), Thomas Byles, Thomas Ewing, Thomas Ewing Sherman, Thomas Merton, Thomas Morton Harper, Thomas William Allies, Thomas Woods, Thomas Worthington (governor), Thomism, Three Pillars of Chinese Catholicism, Tibetan Buddhism, Tim Conway, Time Life, Timo Soini, Tobie Matthew, Tony Blair, Translation, Trappists, Ulf Ekman, Union Army, United States Army, United States Poet Laureate, University of St Andrews, Uppsala, Veit Amerbach, Veit Erbermann, Veronica of the Passion, Vincent Price, Virtue ethics, Vittorio Messori, Vladimir Abrikosov, Vladimir Ghika, Vladimir Pecherin, Vyacheslav Ivanov (poet), Walker Percy, Walter B. Jones Jr., Walter Hooper, Walter M. Miller Jr., Władysław Anders, Wesley Clark, Wesley Sneijder, William E. Orchard, William Everson, William George Ward, William Henry Anderdon, William Kurelek, William Lockhart (priest), William Maziere Brady, William Munk, William Reynolds (theologian), William Rosecrans, William Tecumseh Sherman, Wilton Daniel Gregory, Women's suffrage, Word of Faith, World War II, Wu Li, Xu Guangqi, Yad Vashem, Yuna Kim, Zacharias Werner, Zhu Youlang, 1972 Whitbread Awards. Expand index (572 more) »

A Canticle for Leibowitz

A Canticle for Leibowitz is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by American writer Walter M. Miller Jr., first published in 1959.

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A Guide for the Perplexed

A Guide for the Perplexed is a short book by E. F. Schumacher, published in 1977.

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A Severe Mercy

A Severe Mercy is an autobiographical book by Sheldon Vanauken, relating the author's relationship with his wife, their friendship with C. S. Lewis, conversion to Christianity, and subsequent tragedy.

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Abby Johnson (activist)

Abby Johnson (born 10 July 1980) is an American pro-life activist who previously worked at Planned Parenthood as a clinic director, but resigned in October 2009.

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Academi

Academi is an American private military company founded in 1997 by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince as Blackwater, renamed as Xe Services in 2009 and now known as Academi since 2011 after the company was acquired by a group of private investors.

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Academy Award for Best Actress

The Academy Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.

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Adrienne von Speyr

Adrienne von Speyr (20 September 1902 – 17 September 1967) was a Swiss Catholic physician, writer and theologian.

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Afonso I of Kongo

Mvemba a Nzinga or Nzinga Mbemba (c. 1456–1542 or 1543), also known as King Afonso I, was a ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo in the first half of the 16th century.

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Agni Pratistha

Agni Pratistha Arkadewi Kuswardono (born 8 December 1987) is an actress and beauty queen who has competed in the Miss Universe pageant.

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Alasdair MacIntyre

Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (born 12 January 1929) is a Scottish philosopher, primarily known for his contribution to moral and political philosophy, but also known for his work in history of philosophy and theology.

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Alban Roe

Saint Alban Roe (20 July 1583 – 21 January 1642) was an English Benedictine priest, remembered as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

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Albert Küchler

Albert Küchler (2 May 1803 – 16 February 1886) was a Danish painter associated with the Danish Golden Age.

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Alec Guinness

Sir Alec Guinness, (born Alec Guinness de Cuffe; 2 April 1914 – 5 August 2000) was an English actor.

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Alexander Briant

Saint Alexander Briant (17 August 1556 – 1 December 1581) was an English Jesuit and martyr, executed at Tyburn.

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Alexis Carrel

Alexis Carrel (28 June 1873 – 5 November 1944) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

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Alfred Döblin

Bruno Alfred Döblin (10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

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Alfred Noyes

Alfred Noyes CBE (16 September 188025 June 1958) was an English poet, short-story writer and playwright, best known for his ballads, "The Highwayman" and "The Barrel-Organ".

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Alfred S. Regnery

Alfred S. Regnery (born November 21, 1942) is an American conservative lawyer, author, and former publisher.

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Alice B. Toklas

Alice Babette Toklas (April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967) was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein.

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Alice Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell (née Thompson; 11 October 184727 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

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Alice Thomas Ellis

Alice Thomas Ellis (born Ann Margaret Lindholm, 9 September 1932 – 8 March 2005) was a British writer and essayist.

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Allen Hunt

Allen R. Hunt (born January 6, 1964, in Los Angeles, California) is an American author and speaker.

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Allen Tate

John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979), known professionally as Allen Tate, was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate from 1943 to 1944.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Ammon Hennacy

Ammon Ashford Hennacy (July 24, 1893 – January 14, 1970) was an American Christian pacifist, anarchist, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement, and Wobbly.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.

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Analytic philosophy

Analytic philosophy (sometimes analytical philosophy) is a style of philosophy that became dominant in the Western world at the beginning of the 20th century.

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André Frossard

André Frossard (1915–1995) was a French journalist and essayist.

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Andrea Bocelli

Andrea Bocelli, (born 22 September 1958) is an Italian singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Andrew Burnham (priest)

Andrew Burnham (born 19 March 1948) is an English priest of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Angelus Silesius

Angelus Silesius (9 July 1677), born Johann Scheffler and also known as Johann Angelus Silesius, was a German Catholic priest and physician, known as a mystic and religious poet.

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Ann Widdecombe

Ann Noreen Widdecombe, (born 4 October 1947) is a British former politician.

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Anna Abrikosova

Anna Ivanovna Abrikosova (Анна Ивановна Абрикосова) (later known as Mother Catherine of Siena, O.P.) (Екатери́на Сие́нская or Ekaterina Sienskaya), (23 January 1882, Kitaigorod, Moscow, Russian Empire – 23 July 1936, Butyrka Prison, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Russian Roman Catholic religious sister, literary translator, and victim of Joseph Stalin's concentration camps.

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Annales Ecclesiastici

Annales Ecclesiastici (full title Annales ecclesiastici a Christo nato ad annum 1198; "Ecclesiastical annals from Christ's nativity to 1198"), consisting of twelve folio volumes, is a history of the first 12 centuries of the Christian Church, written by Caesar Baronius.

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Anorexia nervosa

Anorexia nervosa, often referred to simply as anorexia, is an eating disorder characterized by low weight, fear of gaining weight, and a strong desire to be thin, resulting in food restriction.

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Anthony Rhodes

Anthony Rhodes (September 24, 1916 – August 23, 2004) was a British writer of memoirs, novels, travelogues, reviews and histories.

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Anthony Ross (priest)

Fr Ian Anthony Ross (14 June 1917 – 24 May 1993) was a Scottish born Catholic priest and member of The Order of Preachers (Dominican).

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Anti-Catholicism

Anti-Catholicism is hostility towards Catholics or opposition to the Catholic Church, its clergy and its adherents.

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Antonia Fraser

Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, (née Pakenham; born 27 August 1932) is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction.

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Antonio Ligabue

Antonio Ligabue (18 December 1899 – 27 May 1965; real name: Antonio Laccabue) was an Italian painter.

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Anwar Sadat

Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat (محمد أنور السادات, Egyptian muħæmmæd ˈʔɑnwɑɾ essæˈdæːt; 25 December 1918 – 6 October 1981) was the third President of Egypt, serving from 15 October 1970 until his assassination by fundamentalist army officers on 6 October 1981.

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Apologia Pro Vita Sua

Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Latin: A defence of one's own life) is John Henry Newman's defence of his religious opinions, published in 1864 in response to Charles Kingsley of the Church of England after Newman quit his position as the Anglican vicar of St.

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Arcadio Huang

Arcadio Huang (born in Xinghua, modern Putian, in Fujian, 15 November 1679, died on 1 October 1716 in Paris),Mungello, p.125 was a Chinese Christian convert, brought to Paris by the Missions étrangères.

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Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury.

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Arnold Lunn

Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn (18 April 1888 – 2 June 1974) was a skier, mountaineer and writer.

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Asia Booth Clarke

Asia Frigga Booth Clarke (November 19, 1835 – May 16, 1888) was the eighth in the family of ten children born to Junius Brutus Booth and his wife Mary Ann Holmes.

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Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 187216 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author.

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Audrey Assad

Audrey Nicole Assad (born July 1, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter and contemporary Christian music artist.

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Augusta Theodosia Drane

Augusta Theodosia Drane (29 December 182329 April 1894) was an English writer and Roman Catholic nun.

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Auguste Comte

Isidore Marie Auguste François Xavier Comte (19 January 1798 – 5 September 1857) was a French philosopher who founded the discipline of praxeology and the doctrine of positivism.

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Auguste Rodin

François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 1840 – 17 November 1917), known as Auguste Rodin, was a French sculptor.

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Augustus Pugin

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1 March 181214 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist, and critic who is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style of architecture.

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Austrian School

The Austrian School is a school of economic thought that is based on methodological individualism—the concept that social phenomena result from the motivations and actions of individuals.

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Avery Dulles

Avery Robert Dulles, S.J. (August 24, 1918 – December 12, 2008) was a Jesuit priest, theologian, and Cardinal of the Catholic Church.

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Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand (born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum; – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American writer and philosopher.

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Banine

Umm-El-Banine Assadoulaeff (Umm El-Banu Äsâdullayeva) (18 December 1905 – 23 October 1992) was a French writer of Azerbaijani descent - a granddaughter of Azerbaijani millionaire Musa Nagiyev and daughter of Azerbaijani businessman and politician Mirza Asadullayev.

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Barlaam of Seminara

Barlaam of Seminara (Bernardo Massari, as a layman), c. 1290–1348, or Barlaam of Calabria (Βαρλαὰμ Καλαβρός) was a southern Italian scholar (Aristotelian scholastic) and clergyman of the 14th century, as well as a Humanist, a philologist, and a theologian.

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Barry Ulanov

Barry Ulanov (April 10, 1918 – April 30, 2000) was an American writer, perhaps best known as a jazz critic.

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Barthold Nihus

Barthold Nihus, OPraem (born on 7 February 1590, Holtorf, Hanover, now Germany – died on 10 March 1657, Erfurt, now Germany) was a Catholic convert, a German Catholic bishop and controversialist.

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Baylor University

Baylor University (BU) is a private Christian university in Waco, Texas.

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Benedict Gregorios

Archbishop Benedict Mar Gregorios (1 February 1916 – 10 October 1994) (Malayalam: ബെനെഡിക്ട് മാർ ഗ്രീഗോറിയോസ്) was the second Metropolitan Archbishop of the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.

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Berlin Alexanderplatz

Berlin Alexanderplatz is a 1929 novel by Alfred Döblin.

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Bernard Nathanson

Bernard N. Nathanson (July 31, 1926 – February 21, 2011) was an American medical doctor and co-founder in 1969 of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws — NARAL — later renamed National Abortion Rights Action League.

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Bernardo the Japanese

was an early Japanese Christian convert of the 16th century, born in Kagoshima, and the first Japanese person to set foot in Europe.

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Beryl Bainbridge

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool.

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Bill Veeck

William Louis Veeck Jr. (February 9, 1914 – January 2, 1986), also known as "Sport Shirt", was an American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter.

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Biochemistry

Biochemistry, sometimes called biological chemistry, is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.

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Biologist

A biologist, is a scientist who has specialized knowledge in the field of biology, the scientific study of life.

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Bishop of London

The Bishop of London is the ordinary of the Church of England Diocese of London in the Province of Canterbury.

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Black Elk

Heȟáka Sápa (Black Elk) (December 1, 1863 – August 19, 1950) was a famous wičháša wakȟáŋ (medicine man and holy man) and heyoka of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) who lived in the present-day United States, primarily South Dakota.

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Black Narcissus

Black Narcissus is a 1947 NR Technicolor drama film by the British writer-producer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, based on the 1939 novel by Rumer Godden.

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Bobby Jindal

Piyush "Bobby" Jindal (born June 10, 1971) is an American politician who was the 55th Governor of Louisiana between 2008 and 2016, and previously served as a U.S. Congressman and as the vice chairman of the Republican Governors Association.

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Bobby Jones (golfer)

Robert Tyre Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971) was an American amateur golfer who was one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport; he was also a lawyer by profession.

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Brent Robbins

Brent Dean Robbins is Associate Professor of psychology at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Brideshead Revisited

Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by English writer Evelyn Waugh, first published in 1945.

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British Union of Fascists

The British Union of Fascists, or BUF, was a fascist political party in the United Kingdom formed in 1932 by Oswald Mosley.

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C. S. Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963) was a British novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian, broadcaster, lecturer, and Christian apologist.

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Calgary Herald

The Calgary Herald is a daily newspaper published in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

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Calvinism

Calvinism (also called the Reformed tradition, Reformed Christianity, Reformed Protestantism, or the Reformed faith) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice of John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians.

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Canon law of the Catholic Church

The canon law of the Catholic Church is the system of laws and legal principles made and enforced by the hierarchical authorities of the Catholic Church to regulate its external organization and government and to order and direct the activities of Catholics toward the mission of the Church.

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Canossians

The Canossians are a family of two religious institutes and three affiliated organizations that trace their origin to Magdalen of Canossa (1774–1835) who was declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in 1988.

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Cardinal (Catholic Church)

A cardinal (Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis, literally Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church) is a senior ecclesiastical leader, considered a Prince of the Church, and usually an ordained bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Carlism

Carlism (Karlismo; Carlisme) is a Traditionalist and legitimist political movement in Spain seeking the establishment of a separate line of the Bourbon dynasty on the Spanish throne.

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Carlton J. H. Hayes

Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes (May 16, 1882 – September 2, 1964) was an American historian, educator, diplomat, devout Catholic and academic.

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Catherine Doherty

Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine de Hueck Doherty, better known as Catherine Doherty (August 15, 1896 – December 14, 1985), was a Catholic social worker and founder of the Madonna House Apostolate. A pioneer of social justice and a renowned national speaker, Doherty was also a prolific writer of hundreds of articles, best-selling author of dozens of books, and a dedicated wife and mother. Her cause for canonization as a saint is under consideration by the Catholic Church., catherinedoherty.org.

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Catholic Association of Performing Arts (UK)

The British Catholic Stage Guild, the main organisation for Roman Catholics in British entertainment, was founded in 1911.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.

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Catholic funeral

A Catholic funeral is carried out in accordance with the prescribed rites of the Catholic Church.

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Catholic University of Ireland

The Catholic University of Ireland (Ollscoil Chaitliceach na hÉireann) was a Catholic university in Dublin, Ireland and was founded in 1851 following the Synod of Thurles in 1850, and in response to the Queen's University of Ireland and its associated colleges which were nondenominational.

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Catholic Worker

The Catholic Worker is a newspaper published 7 times a year by the Catholic Worker Movement community in New York City.

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Cecil Chesterton

Cecil Edward Chesterton (12 November 1879 – 6 December 1918) was an English journalist and political commentator, known particularly for his role as editor of The New Witness from 1912 to 1916, and in relation to its coverage of the Marconi scandal.

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Charles II of England

Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was king of England, Scotland and Ireland.

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Charles Péguy

Charles Pierre Péguy (7 January 1873 – 5 September 1914) was a noted French poet, essayist, and editor.

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Chelsea Olivia Wijaya

Chelsea Olivia (born 29 July 1992) whose full name is Chelsea Olivia Wijaya, is an Indonesian actress and pop singer.

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Cherry Boone

Cheryl Lynn "Cherry" Boone (born July 7, 1954), also known as Cherry O'Neill, is an American writer, author, and singer.

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Chris Haw

Chris Haw (born 1981) is an important figure in New Monasticism.

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Christian anarchism

Christian anarchism is a movement in political theology that claims anarchism is inherent in Christianity and the Gospels.

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Christian democracy

Christian democracy is a political ideology that emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of Catholic social teaching, as well as Neo-Calvinism.

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Christian existentialism

Christian existentialism is a theo-philosophical movement which takes an existentialist approach to Christian theology.

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Christina Rossetti

Christina Georgina Rossetti (5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894) was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems.

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Christina, Queen of Sweden

Christina (– 19 April 1689) reigned as Queen of Sweden from 1632 until her abdication in 1654.

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Christopher Davenport

Francis Davenport, O.M.R., also known as Father Francis of Saint Clare, (1598 – 31 May 1680) was an English Catholic theologian, a Recollect friar and royal chaplain.

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Church of Christ, Scientist

The Church of Christ, Scientist was founded in 1879 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Mary Baker Eddy, author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, and founder of Christian Science.

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Church of Ireland

The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann; Ulster-Scots: Kirk o Airlann) is a Christian church in Ireland and an autonomous province of the Anglican Communion.

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Clare Boothe Luce

Clare Boothe Luce (March 10, 1903 – October 9, 1987) was an American author, politician, U.S. Ambassador and public conservative figure.

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Claude McKay

Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay (September 15, 1889 – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American basic cable, internet and satellite business news television channel that is owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a division of NBCUniversal, with both being ultimately owned by Comcast.

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Come to the Stable

Come to the Stable is a 1949 American film which tells the true story of the Abbey of Regina Laudis and the two French religious sisters who come to a small New England town and involve the townsfolk in helping them to build a children's hospital.

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Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments (Congregatio de Cultu Divino et Disciplina Sacramentorum) is the congregation of the Roman Curia that handles most affairs relating to liturgical practices of the Latin Church as distinct from the Eastern Catholic Churches and also some technical matters relating to the Sacraments.

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Congregation of Our Lady of Sion

The Congregation of Our Lady of Sion (Congrégation de Notre-Dame de Sion, abbreviated by its members as N.D.S.) is composed of two Roman Catholic religious congregations founded in Paris, France.

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Congregation of the Holy Spirit

The Congregation of the Holy Spirit (full title, Congregation of the Holy Spirit under the protection of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, or in Latin, Congregatio Sancti Spiritus sub tutela Immaculati Cordis Beatissimae Virginis Mariae, and thus abbreviated C.S.Sp.) is a Roman Catholic congregation of priests, lay brothers, and since Vatican II, lay associates.

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Conrad Black

Conrad Moffat Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, KSG (born 25 August 1944) is a British former newspaper publisher, author.

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Consequentialism

Consequentialism is the class of normative ethical theories holding that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness or wrongness of that conduct.

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Conservatism in the United States

American conservatism is a broad system of political beliefs in the United States that is characterized by respect for American traditions, republicanism, support for Judeo-Christian values, moral absolutism, free markets and free trade, anti-communism, individualism, advocacy of American exceptionalism, and a defense of Western culture from the perceived threats posed by socialism, authoritarianism, and moral relativism.

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Constantine the African

Constantine the African (Constantinus Africanus; died before 1098/1099, Monte Cassino) was a physician who lived in the 11th century.

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Coral Browne

Coral Edith Browne (23 July 1913 – 29 May 1991) was an Australian-American stage and screen actress.

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Corriere della Sera

The Corriere della Sera (English: Evening Courier) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average daily circulation of 410,242 copies in December 2015.

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Council of Trent

The Council of Trent (Concilium Tridentinum), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent (or Trento, in northern Italy), was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.

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Countess of Ségur

Sophie Rostopchine, Countess of Ségur, born Sofiya Feodorovna Rostopchina (Софья Фёдоровна Ростопчина; 1 August 1799 in Saint Petersburg – 8 February 1874 in Paris), was a French writer of Russian birth and origin.

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Coventry Patmore

Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore (23 July 1823 – 26 November 1896) was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage.

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Creighton Abrams

Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. (September 15, 1914 – September 4, 1974) was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968–1972, which saw U.S. troop strength in South Vietnam reduced from a peak of 543,000 to 49,000.

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Czechs

The Czechs (Češi,; singular masculine: Čech, singular feminine: Češka) or the Czech people (Český národ), are a West Slavic ethnic group and a nation native to the Czech Republic in Central Europe, who share a common ancestry, culture, history and Czech language.

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Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz (30 June 1911 – 14 August 2004) was a Polish poet, prose writer, translator and diplomat.

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Dames of Malta

Dames of Malta are female members of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Their male counterparts are the Knights of Malta. Prominent living Dames of Malta include.

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Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award

The Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award is a lifetime honor presented annually by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) to no more than one living writer of fantasy or science fiction.

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Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.

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David Golder

David Golder is writer Irène Némirovsky's first novel.

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David Kirk (activist)

Father David Kirk (March 12, 1935 – May 23, 2007) was an American civil rights and anti-poverty activist.

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David Paul Drach

David Paul Drach (b. Strasbourg, 6 March 1791; d. end of January, 1868, Rome) was a Catholic convert from Judaism, and librarian of the College of Propaganda in Rome.

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David Silk (priest)

Robert David Silk (born 23 August 1936) is an English priest of the Roman Catholic Church.

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David Stove

David Charles Stove (15 September 1927 – 2 June 1994), was an Australian philosopher.

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David-Augustin de Brueys

David-Augustin de Brueys (18 September 164125 November 1723) was a French theologian and playwright.

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Dawn Eden Goldstein

Dawn Eden Goldstein is an American Roman Catholic author and journalist who was formerly a rock music historian and tabloid newspaper headline writer.

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Dean Koontz

Dean Ray Koontz (born July 9, 1945) is an American author.

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Deathbed conversion

A deathbed conversion is the adoption of a particular religious faith shortly before dying.

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Delia Smith

Delia Ann Smith (born 18 June 1941) is an English cook and television presenter, known for teaching basic cookery skills in a no-nonsense style.

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Demetrios Kydones

Demetrios Kydones, Latinized as Demetrius Cydones or Demetrius Cydonius (Δημήτριος Κυδώνης; 1324, Thessalonica – 1398, Crete), was a Byzantine theologian, translator, writer and influential statesman, who served an unprecedented three terms as Mesazon (Imperial Prime Minister or Chancellor) of the Byzantine Empire under three successive emperors: John VI Kantakouzenos, John V Palaiologos and Manuel II Palaiologos.

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Demographics of Indonesia

The population of Indonesia according to the 2010 national census was 237.64 million, and it was estimated to reach 255.4 million in 2015.

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Dewi Rezer

Dewi Rezer (born 29 September 1980) is an Indonesian actress, presenter and model.

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Diana Dors

Diana Dors (born Diana Mary Fluck; 23 October 1931 – 4 May 1984) was an English film actress and singer.

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Diana, Princess of Wales

Diana, Princess of Wales (born Diana Frances Spencer; 1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997) was a member of the British royal family.

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Dietrich von Hildebrand

Dietrich Richard Alfred von Hildebrand (12 October 1889 – 26 January 1977) was a German Roman Catholic philosopher and theologian.

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Dilwyn Lewis

Monsignor Dilwyn Lewis (28 April 1924 – 10 July 2000) was a British clothes designer turned Roman Catholic priest who oversaw the restoration of the ancient Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.

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Diplomat

A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.

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Discalced Carmelites

The Discalced Carmelites or Barefoot Carmelites is a Catholic mendicant order with roots in the eremitic tradition of the Desert Fathers and Mothers.

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Djibril Cissé

Djibril Cissé (born 12 August 1981) is a French footballer who plays as a striker for Swiss club Yverdon.

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Dominican Order

The Order of Preachers (Ordo Praedicatorum, postnominal abbreviation OP), also known as the Dominican Order, is a mendicant Catholic religious order founded by the Spanish priest Dominic of Caleruega in France, approved by Pope Honorius III via the Papal bull Religiosam vitam on 22 December 1216.

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Donald Nicholl

Donald Nicholl (23 July 1923 – 3 May 1997) was a British historian and theologian.

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Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert.

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Dutch Schultz

Dutch Schultz (born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer; August 6, 1901October 24, 1935) was a New York City-area Jewish-American mobster of the 1920s and 1930s who made his fortune in organized crime-related activities, including bootlegging and the numbers racket.

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E. F. Schumacher

Ernst Friedrich Schumacher (19 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was a German statistician and economist who is best known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate technologies.

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E. Howard Hunt

Everette Howard Hunt Jr. (October 9, 1918 – January 23, 2007), better known as E. Howard Hunt, was an American intelligence officer and published author of 73 books.

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E. T. Whittaker

Edmund Taylor Whittaker FRS FRSE (24 October 1873 – 24 March 1956) was an English mathematician who contributed widely to applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and the theory of special functions.

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Eastern Orthodox Church

The Eastern Orthodox Church, also known as the Orthodox Church, or officially as the Orthodox Catholic Church, is the second-largest Christian Church, with over 250 million members.

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Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells.

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Edith Stein

Edith Stein (religious name Teresa Benedicta a Cruce OCD; also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; 12 October 1891 – 9 August 1942), was a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Discalced Carmelite nun.

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Edmund Campion

Saint Edmund Campion, S.J., (24 January 1540 – 1 December 1581) was an English Roman Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr.

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Edmund Gennings

Saint Edmund Gennings (1567 – 10 December 1591) was an English martyr, who was executed during the English Reformation for being a Catholic priest.

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Edwin Barnes

Edwin Ronald Barnes (born 6 February 1935) is a British Roman Catholic priest and a former Church of England bishop.

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Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales

The Eighty-five Martyrs of England and Wales are a group of men who were executed on charges of treason and related offences in the Kingdom of England between 1584 and 1679.

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Elinor Brent-Dyer

Elinor M. Brent-Dyer (6 April 1894 – 20 September 1969) was a children's author who wrote more than 100 books during her lifetime, the most famous being the Chalet School series.

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Elizabeth Ann Seton

Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, S.C., (August 28, 1774 – January 4, 1821) was the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church (September 14, 1975).

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Elizabeth Bentley

Elizabeth Terrill Bentley (January 1, 1908 – December 3, 1963) was an American spy for the Soviet Union from 1938 until 1945.

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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Elizabeth Ann Fox-Genovese (May 28, 1941 – January 2, 2007) was an American historian best known for her works on women and society in the Antebellum South.

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Elizabeth Hesselblad

Saint Maria Elizabeth Hesselblad (4 June 1870 – 24 April 1957), was a Swedish nurse who was a convert to the Catholic Church and founded a new form of life of the Bridgettines known as the Bridgettine Sisters.

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Ellen Gates Starr

Ellen Gates Starr (March 19, 1859 – February 10, 1940) was an American social reformer and activist.

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Elliot Griffin Thomas

Elliot Griffin Thomas is an African-American Catholic prelate who served as the Bishop of the Diocese of Saint Thomas.

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Emily Coleman

Emily Coleman (1899–1974) was an American born writer, and a lifelong compulsive diary keeper.

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Empress Dowager Wang (Southern Ming)

Empress Dowager Wang (c. 1594? – 1651), personal name unknown, formally known as Empress Dowager Xiaozheng (孝正太后), was an empress dowager of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

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Encyclopedia Americana

Encyclopedia Americana is one of the largest general encyclopedias in the English language.

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Enrique of Malacca

Enrique of Malacca (Enrique de Malaca; Henrique de Malaca), was a native of the Malay Archipelago who became a slave of the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the 16th century.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church is the United States-based member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande

The Episcopal Diocese of the Rio Grande is the Episcopal Church's diocese in New Mexico and southwest Texas, the portion of the state west of the Pecos River, including the counties of El Paso, Reeves, Culberson, Jeff Davis, Brewster, Presidio, Terrell, Hudspeth and Pecos.

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Eric Gregory Award

The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission.

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Erik Prince

Erik Dean Prince (born June 6, 1969) is an American businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL officer best known for founding the government services and security company Blackwater USA, now known as Academi.

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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist.

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Esquire (magazine)

Esquire is an American men's magazine, published by the Hearst Corporation in the United States.

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Ethan Allen

Ethan Allen (Allen's date of birth is made confusing by calendrical differences caused by the conversion between the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The first change offsets the date by 11 days. The second is that, at the time of Allen's birth, the New Year began on March 25. As a result, while his birth is officially recorded as happening on January 10, 1737, conversions due to these changes make the date in the modern calendar January 21, 1738. Adjusting for the movement of the New Year to January changes the year to 1738; adjusting for the Gregorian calendar changes the date from January 10 to 21. See Jellison, p. 2 and Hall (1895), p. 5. – February 12, 1789) was a farmer, businessman, land speculator, philosopher, writer, lay theologian, and American Revolutionary War patriot, and politician.

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Etsuro Sotoo

Etsuro Sotoo (born 1953 in Fukuoka Prefecture) is a Japanese sculptor strongly influenced by Antoni Gaudí.

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Eugene Genovese

Eugene Dominic Genovese (May 19, 1930 – September 26, 2012) was an American historian of the American South and American slavery.

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Euroscepticism

Euroscepticism (also known as EU-scepticism) means criticism of the European Union (EU) and European integration.

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Eustace White

St Eustace White, one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

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Evangelical Theological Society

The Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) is a professional society of Biblical scholars, educators, pastors, and students "devoted to the inerrancy and inspiration of the Scriptures and the gospel of Jesus Christ" and "dedicated to the oral exchange and written expression of theological thought and research.".

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Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St.

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EWTN

The Eternal Word Television Network, more commonly known by its initialism EWTN, is an American television network which presents around-the-clock Catholic-themed programming.

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Exarch

The term exarch comes from the Ancient Greek ἔξαρχος, exarchos, and designates holders of various historical offices, some of them being political or military and others being ecclesiastical.

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Fanny Allen

Frances Margaret ("Fanny") Allen (November 13, 1784 – September 10, 1819) was the first New England woman to become a Catholic nun.

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Farouk of Egypt

Farouk I (فاروق الأول Fārūq al-Awwal; 11 February 1920 – 18 March 1965) was the tenth ruler of Egypt from the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the penultimate King of Egypt and the Sudan, succeeding his father, Fuad I, in 1936.

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Father Damien

Father Damien or Saint Damien of Molokai, SS.CC. or Saint Damien De Veuster (Pater Damiaan or Heilige Damiaan van Molokai; 3 January 1840 – 15 April 1889), born Jozef De Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious institute.

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Fathia Ghali

Fathia Ghali (née Fathia Fuad) (17 December 1930 – 10 December 1976) was the youngest daughter of Fuad I of Egypt and Nazli Sabri, and so the youngest sister of Farouk I.

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Faye Dunaway

Dorothy Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is an American actress.

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Feng shui

Feng shui (pronounced), also known as Chinese geomancy, is a pseudoscience originating from China, which claims to use energy forces to harmonize individuals with their surrounding environment.

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Ferdinand Magellan

Ferdinand Magellan (or; Fernão de Magalhães,; Fernando de Magallanes,; c. 1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.

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Filipinos

Filipinos (Mga Pilipino) are the people who are native to, or identified with the country of the Philippines.

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Finns Party

The Finns Party, previously known as the True Finns (Perussuomalaiset, PS, Sannfinländarna, Sannf.), is a populist and nationalist-oriented Finnish political party, founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party.

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First Things

First Things is an ecumenical, conservative and, in some views, neoconservative religious journal aimed at "advanc a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society".

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Fordham University

Fordham University is a private research university in New York City.

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Forty Martyrs of England and Wales

The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales are a group of Catholic men and women executed for treason and related offences between 1535 and 1679.

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Frances Margaret Taylor

Frances Margaret Taylor, whose religious name was Mother Magdalen of the Sacred Heart (20 January 1832 – 9 June 1900) was an English nurse, editor and writer, nun, and Superior General and founder of the Roman Catholic religious congregation the Poor Servants of the Mother of God.

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Frances Shand Kydd

Frances Ruth Shand Kydd (previously Spencer, née Roche; 20 January 1936 – 3 June 2004) was the mother of Diana, Princess of Wales.

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Francis Arinze

Francis Arinze (born 1 November 1932) is a Nigerian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Francis Asbury Baker

Francis Asbury Baker (March 30, 1820 – April 4, 1865) was an American Catholic priest, missionary, and social worker, known as one of the founders of the Paulist Fathers in 1858.

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Francis Hsu

Francis Hsu Chen-Ping; (20 February 192023 May 1973), was a Chinese clergyman.

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Francis J. Beckwith

Francis J. "Frank" Beckwith (born 1960) is an American philosopher, Christian apologist, scholar, and lecturer.

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Francis Libermann

Francis Mary Paul Libermann (François-Marie-Paul Libermann; born Jacob Libermann; 14 April 1802 – 2 February 1852) was a 19th-century French Jewish convert to Catholicism, member of the Spiritan Congregation.

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Frank Sheed

Francis Joseph "Frank" Sheed (March 20, 1897 in Sydney – November 20, 1982 in Jersey City), an Australian-born lawyer, was a Catholic writer, publisher, and speaker.

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Frederick Charles Shrady

Frederick Charles Shrady (October 22, 1907, East View, New York — January 20, 1990, Easton, Connecticut) was an American painter and sculptor, best known for his religious sculptures.

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Frederick Copleston

Frederick Charles Copleston, SJ, CBE (10 April 1907 – 3 February 1994) was a Jesuit priest, philosopher, and historian of philosophy, best known for his influential multi-volume A History of Philosophy (1946–74).

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Frederick Lucas

Frederick Lucas (30 March 1812 – 22 October 1855) was a British religious polemicist and founder of The Tablet.

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Frederick Oakeley

Frederick Oakeley (5 September 1802 – 30 January 1880) was an English Roman Catholic convert, priest, and author.

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Frederick William Faber

Frederick William Faber C.O. (28 June 1814 – 26 September 1863) was a noted English hymn writer and theologian, who converted from Anglicanism to the Catholic priesthood.

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French people

The French (Français) are a Latin European ethnic group and nation who are identified with the country of France.

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French Resistance

The French Resistance (La Résistance) was the collection of French movements that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and against the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist and a Latin and Greek scholar whose work has exerted a profound influence on Western philosophy and modern intellectual history.

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Friedrich Staphylus

Friedrich Staphylus (27 August 1512 – 5 March 1564) was a German theologian, at first a Protestant and then a Catholic convert.

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Fuad I of Egypt

Fuad I (فؤاد الأول Fu’ād al-Awwal, I.; 26 March 1868 – 28 April 1936) was the Sultan and later King of Egypt and Sudan, Sovereign of Nubia, Kordofan, and Darfur.

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Fulton J. Sheen

Venerable Fulton John Sheen (born Peter John Sheen, May 8, 1895 – December 9, 1979) was an American bishop (later archbishop) of the Catholic Church known for his preaching and especially his work on television and radio.

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G. E. M. Anscombe

Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe (18 March 1919 – 5 January 2001), usually cited as G. E. M.

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G. K. Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, KC*SG (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic.

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Gabriel Marcel

Gabriel Honoré Marcel (7 December 1889 – 8 October 1973) was a French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Christian existentialist.

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Gary Cooper

Gary Cooper (born Frank James Cooper; May 7, 1901 – May 13, 1961) was an American film actor known for his natural, authentic, and understated acting style and screen performances.

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Gate of Heaven Cemetery (Hawthorne, New York)

The Gate of Heaven Cemetery, approximately north of New York City, was established in 1917 at 10 West Stevens Ave.

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Göran Stenius

Göran Erik Stenius (9 July 1909, Viipuri – 21 June 2000, Helsinki) was a Swedish Finnish journalist, official in the Foreign Ministry and writer.

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Gene Wolfe

Gene Rodman Wolfe (born May 7, 1931) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer.

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Geoffrey Fisher

Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Baron Fisher of Lambeth, (5 May 1887 – 15 September 1972) was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1945 to 1961.

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George Mackay Brown

George Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist, whose work has a distinctly Orcadian character.

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George Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer

George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer, (1 September 1758 – 10 November 1834), styled Viscount Althorp from 1765 to 1783, was a British Whig politician.

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Georgiana Fullerton

Lady Georgiana Fullerton (23 September 1812 – 19 January 1885) was an English novelist.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets.

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector.

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Gerty Cori

Gerty Theresa Cori (née Radnitz; August 15, 1896 – October 26, 1957) was a Jewish Czech-American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Global village

The global village is a metaphoric shrinking of the world into a village through the use of electronic media.

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Globalism

Globalism is a group of ideologies that advocate the concept of globalization.

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Godfrey Kneller

Sir Godfrey Kneller, 1st Baronet (born Gottfried Kniller; 8 August 1646 – 19 October 1723), was the leading portrait painter in England during the late 17th and early 18th centuries, and was court painter to English and British monarchs from Charles II to George I. His major works include The Chinese Convert (1687; Royal Collection, London); a series of four portraits of Isaac Newton painted at various junctures of the latter's life; a series of ten reigning European monarchs, including King Louis XIV of France; over 40 "kit-cat portraits" of members of the Kit-Cat Club; and ten "beauties" of the court of William III, to match a similar series of ten beauties of the court of Charles II painted by his predecessor as court painter, Sir Peter Lely.

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Gothic Revival architecture

Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England.

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Graham Greene

Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991), better known by his pen name Graham Greene, was an English novelist regarded by many as one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.

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Graham Leonard

Graham Douglas Leonard KCVO (8 May 1921 – 6 January 2010) was an English Roman Catholic priest and former Anglican bishop.

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Graham Sutherland

Graham Vivian Sutherland OM (24 August 1903 – 17 February 1980) was an English artist who is notable for his work in glass, fabrics, prints and portraits.

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Greg Abbott

Gregory Wayne Abbott (born November 13, 1957) is an American lawyer and politician who serves as the 48th Governor of Texas since January 2015.

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Gregory Palamas

Gregory Palamas (Γρηγόριος Παλαμάς; c. 1296 – 1357 or 1359) was a prominent theologian and ecclesiastical figure of the late Byzantine period.

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Gulag

The Gulag (ГУЛАГ, acronym of Главное управление лагерей и мест заключения, "Main Camps' Administration" or "Chief Administration of Camps") was the government agency in charge of the Soviet forced labor camp system that was created under Vladimir Lenin and reached its peak during Joseph Stalin's rule from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Gustav Mahler

Gustav Mahler (7 July 1860 – 18 May 1911) was an Austro-Bohemian late-Romantic composer, and one of the leading conductors of his generation.

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Gwen John

Gwendolen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career.

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H. H. Holmes

Herman Webster Mudgett (May 16, 1861 – May 7, 1896), better known as Dr.

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Halldór Laxness

Halldór Kiljan Laxness (born Halldór Guðjónsson; 23 April 1902 – 8 February 1998) was an Icelandic writer.

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Halliday Sutherland

Halliday Gibson Sutherland (1882–1960) was a British physician, author, opponent of eugenics and the producer of Britain's first public health education cinema film in 1911.

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Harm Klueting

Harm Klueting (born in March 23, 1949 in Iserlohn, Germany) is a German historian, theologian, university professor and a Roman Catholic priest converted from Lutheranism.

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Hasekura Tsunenaga

Hasekura Rokuemon Tsunenaga (or "Philip Francis Faxicura", baptized as "Francisco Felipe Faxicura", in Spain) (1571–1622) (支倉六右衛門常長, also spelled Faxecura Rocuyemon in period European sources, reflecting the contemporary pronunciation of Japanese) was a Japanese samurai and retainer of Date Masamune, the daimyō of Sendai of Japanese imperial descent with ancestral ties to Emperor Kanmu.

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Hawaii

Hawaii (Hawaii) is the 50th and most recent state to have joined the United States, having received statehood on August 21, 1959.

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Heinrich Schlier

Heinrich Schlier (Neuburg an der Donau on the Danube, 31 March 1900 – Bonn, 26 December 1978) was a theologian, initially with the Evangelical Church and later with the Catholic Church.

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Henri Spondanus

Henri Spondanus (de Sponde) (born at Mauléon, in the French Department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques, January 6, 1568; died at Toulouse, May 18, 1643) was a French Catholic jurist, historian and continuator of the Annales Ecclesiastici compiled by Cardinal Baronius, and Bishop of Pamiers.

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Henry Edward Manning

Henry Edward Manning (15 July 1808 – 14 January 1892) was an English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic church, and the second Archbishop of Westminster from 1865 until his death in 1892.

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Henry Ford II

Henry Ford II (September 4, 1917 – September 29, 1987), sometimes known as "HF2" or "Hank the Deuce", was the eldest son of Edsel Ford and eldest grandson of Henry Ford.

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Henry James Coleridge

Henry James Coleridge (born 20 September 1822, in Devon, England; d. Roehampton, 13 April 1893) was a writer on religious affairs and preacher.

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Henry Luce

Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who was called "the most influential private citizen in the America of his day".

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Henry Morse

Saint Henry Morse (1595 – 1 February 1645) was one of the Catholic Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

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Heretics (book)

Heretics is a collection of 20 essays originally published by G.K. Chesterton in 1905.

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Hesychast controversy

The Hesychast controversy was a theological dispute in the Byzantine Empire during the 14th century between supporters and opponents of Gregory Palamas.

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Hierarchy of the Catholic Church

The hierarchy of the Catholic Church consists of its bishops, priests, and deacons.

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Hud (1963 film)

Hud is a 1963 film directed by Martin Ritt and starring Paul Newman, Melvyn Douglas and Patricia Neal.

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HuffPost

HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.

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Hull House

Hull House was a settlement house in the United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.

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Ignace Lepp

Ignace Lepp (born John Robert Lepp; 26 October 1909 in Orajõe, Pärnu County, Livonia, Russian Empire – 29 May 1966 near Paris, France), was a French writer of Estonian origin.

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Ignatius Spencer

Father Ignatius of St Paul (1799–1864), born as Hon.

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Irène Némirovsky

Irène Némirovsky (24 February 1903 – 17 August 1942) was a novelist of Ukrainian Jewish origin born in Kiev Ukraine under the Russian Empire; she lived more than half her life in France, and wrote in French, but was denied French citizenship.

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Irreligion

Irreligion (adjective form: non-religious or irreligious) is the absence, indifference, rejection of, or hostility towards religion.

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Isaac Hecker

Isaac Thomas Hecker (December 18, 1819 – December 22, 1888) was an American Roman Catholic Priest and founder of the Paulist Fathers, a North American religious society of men; he is named a Servant of God by the Catholic Church.

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Islam

IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).

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Ismaël Bullialdus

Ismaël Bullialdus (born Ismaël Boulliau,; 28 September 1605 – 25 November 1694) was a 17th-century French astronomer and mathematician who was also interested in history, theology, classical studies, and philology.

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Israel Zolli

Israel Zolli (September 27, 1881 ‒ March 2, 1956), born Israel Anton Zoller, so was an Austro-Hungarian by birth, and an Italian doctorate professor of philosophy and author.

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Ivan Gagarin

Prince Ivan Sergeyevich Gagarin (Иван Сергеевич Гагарин; born in Moscow, 1 August 1814; died in Paris, 19 July 1882) was a Russian Jesuit, known also as Jean-Xavier after his conversion from Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism.

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Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain (18 November 1882 – 28 April 1973) was a French Catholic philosopher.

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James Collinson

James Collinson (9 May 1825 – 24 January 1881) was a Victorian painter who was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 to 1850.

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James Hope-Scott

James Robert Hope-Scott (15 July 1812 – 29 April 1873) was a British barrister and Tractarian.

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James Longstreet

James Longstreet (January 8, 1821January 2, 1904) was one of the foremost Confederate generals of the American Civil War and the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse." He served under Lee as a corps commander for many of the famous battles fought by the Army of Northern Virginia in the Eastern Theater, and briefly with Braxton Bragg in the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater.

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James McAuley

James Phillip McAuley (12 October 1917 – 15 October 1976) was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic and a prominent convert to Roman Catholicism.

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James Patterson Lyke

James Patterson Lyke, O.F.M. (February 18, 1939 – December 27, 1992) was an African-American clerygman of the Roman Catholic Church.

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James Roosevelt Bayley

James Roosevelt Bayley (August 23, 1814 – October 3, 1877) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church.

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Jan Lipšanský

Jan Lipšanský (born 27 September 1968, in Brno) is a Czech journalist, screenplay writer, writer and stage director.

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Jean Mohamed Ben Abdeljlil

Jean Mohamed Ben Abdeljlil (جون محمد بن عبد الجليل) (alternative transcripts: Benabdeljlil or Abd al-Jalil, born in 1904, Fez, Morocco - died on November 24, 1979, Villejuif, France) was a Moroccan Roman Catholic priest and a Catholic convert from Islam.

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Jean-Baptiste Ventura

Jean-Baptiste (Giovanni Battista) Ventura, born Rubino ben Torah (25 May 17943 April 1858), was an Italian soldier, mercenary in India and early archaeologist of the Punjab region of the Sikh Empire.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.

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Jean-Marie Lustiger

Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger (17 September 1926 – 5 August 2007, Le Monde, 5 August 2007) was a French cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Jeb Bush

John Ellis "Jeb" Bush Sr. (born February 11, 1953) is an American politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007.

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Jeffrey Hamm

Edward Jeffrey Hamm (15 September 1915 – 4 May 1992) was a leading British Fascist and supporter of Oswald Mosley.

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Jeffrey N. Steenson

Jeffrey Neil Steenson PA (born April 1, 1952) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the first ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, which provides for groups of former Anglicans who have become Catholics.

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Jews

Jews (יְהוּדִים ISO 259-3, Israeli pronunciation) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and a nation, originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""The people of the Kingdom of Israel and the ethnic and religious group known as the Jewish people that descended from them have been subjected to a number of forced migrations in their history" and Hebrews of the Ancient Near East.

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Jiao Bingzhen

Jiāo Bǐngzhēn, 1689–1726) was a native of Jining, Shandong who became a noted painter and astronomer. In painting he is noteworthy as one of the first Qing dynasty painters to be influenced by the West. He is also among the more significant portrait and miniature painters in the early Qing. He was skilled in painting people, landscapes, and buildings.Cihai: Page 2012. The Western influence in his art came from his exposure to the Jesuits at the Directorate of Astronomy. Their influence also exposed him to new ideas on astronomy and religion. At some point Jiao became a Roman Catholic and played a role on the Jesuit side of the Chinese Rites controversy. Image:Jiao Bingzhen - Paintings of Ladies - Leaf 2.jpg|Paintings of Ladies - Leaf #2 (畫仕女圖). Ink and color on silk. Width 20.4 cm, Height 30.9 cm. National Palace Museum Image:Jiao Bingzhen - Landscapes - Leaf 2.jpg|Landscapes - Leaf #2 (山水). Ink on paper. Width 26.4 cm, Height 26.2 cm. National Palace Museum.

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Joan Bartlett

Dame Joan Bartlett, S.S.I., O.B.E., D.S.G., (1 August 1911, Lancashire – 9 September 2002) was a prominent British convert to the Roman Catholic Church and the foundress of the Servite Secular Institute.

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Johann Christian Bach

Johann Christian Bach (September 5, 1735 – January 1, 1782) was a composer of the Classical era, the eleventh surviving child and youngest son of Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Johann Emanuel Veith

Johann Emanuel Veith (b. of Jewish parents at Kuttenplan, Bohemia, 1787; d. at Vienna, 6 November 1876) was a Bohemian Roman Catholic preacher.

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Johann Friedrich Overbeck

Johann Friedrich Overbeck (3 July 1789 – 12 November 1869) was a German painter and member of the Nazarene movement.

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Johann Pistorius

Johann Pistorius (14 February 1546 – 19 June 1608), also anglicized as John Pistorius or distinguished as Johann Pistorius the Younger, was a German controversialist and historian.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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Johannes Jørgensen

Jens Johannes Jørgensen (6 November 1866 in Svendborg – 29 May 1956) was a Danish writer, best known for his biographies of Catholic saints.

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Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer (October 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.

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John Adams (Catholic martyr)

The Blessed John Adams (ca. 1543 – 8 October 1586) was an English Catholic priest and martyr.

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John B. Tabb

Father John Banister Tabb (March 22, 1845 – November 19, 1909) was an American poet, Roman Catholic priest, and professor of English.

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John Brande Morris

John Brande Morris, known to friends as Jack Morris (born at Brentford, Middlesex, 4 September 1812; died at Hammersmith, London, 9 April 1880) was an English Anglican theologian, later a Roman Catholic priest.

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John Broadhurst

John Charles Broadhurst (born 20 July 1942) is an English priest of the Roman Catholic Church.

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John C. Wright (author)

John C. Wright (born October 22, 1961) is an American writer of science fiction and fantasy novels.

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John Ching Hsiung Wu

John Ching Hsiung Wu (also John C.H. Wu; Traditional Chinese: 吳經熊; pinyin: Wu Jingxiong) (born 28 March 1899, Ningbo – 6 February 1986) was a Chinese jurist and author.

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John Dryden

John Dryden (–) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668.

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John Foster Dulles

John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888May 24, 1959) was an American diplomat.

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John Gennings

John Gennings (c. 1570 – 12 November 1660 in Douai) was an Englishman who was converted to Catholicism through the martyrdom of his elder brother Saint Edmund Gennings during the English Reformation.

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John Gother

John Gother (died 1704), also known as John Goter, was an English convert to Catholicism, priest, controvertist and eirenicist.

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John Henry Newman

John Henry Newman, (21 February 1801 – 11 August 1890) was a poet and theologian, first an Anglican priest and later a Catholic priest and cardinal, who was an important and controversial figure in the religious history of England in the 19th century.

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John Hungerford Pollen (senior)

John Hungerford Pollen (1820–1902) was an English writer on crafts and furniture.

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John Lawson Stoddard

John Lawson Stoddard (April 24, 1850 – June 5, 1931) was an American writer, hymn writer and lecturer who gained popularity through his travelogues.

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John M. Oesterreicher

Monsignor John Maria Oesterreicher (2 February 1904 – 18 April 1993), born Johannes Oesterreicher, was a Roman Catholic theologian and a leading advocate of Jewish–Catholic reconciliation.

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John Michael Talbot

John Michael Talbot (born May 8, 1954) is an American Catholic singer-songwriter, guitarist, author, television presenter and founder of a monastic community known as the Brothers and Sisters of Charity.

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John Michael Wright

John Michael Wright (May 1617 – July 1694) was a portrait painter in the Baroque style.

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John Sergeant (priest)

John Sergeant (1623–1707 or 1710) was an English Roman Catholic priest, controversialist and theologian.

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John Sparrow David Thompson

Sir John Sparrow David Thompson (November 10, 1845 – December 12, 1894) was a Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Canada, in office from 1892 until his death.

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John Taylor Coleridge

Sir John Taylor Coleridge (9 July 1790 – 11 February 1876) was an English judge, the second son of Captain James Coleridge and nephew of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

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John Tyler

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John Wayne

Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne and nicknamed "The Duke", was an American actor and filmmaker.

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John Wilkes Booth

John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was the American actor who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865.

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John Willem Gran

Willem Nicolaysen Gran (monastic name: John) (born 5 April 1920 in Bergen; died 20 March 2008 in Paris) was the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo from 1963 to 1983.

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John Woodcock (martyr)

John Woodcock O.F.M. (1603–1646) was a Franciscan priest from Lancashire executed in August 1646 under the 1585 "Act against Jesuits, Seminary priests and other such like disobedient persons" (27 Eliz. c. 2) for being a priest and present in the realm.

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Joseph Dutton

Joseph Dutton (April 27, 1843, Stowe, Vermont – March 26, 1931, Honolulu, Hawaii), was a Civil War veteran and Union Army lieutenant, who converted to Catholicism and later worked as a missionary with Father Damien.

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Joseph Lane

Joseph "Joe" Lane (December 14, 1801 – April 19, 1881) was an American politician and soldier.

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Joseph Pearce

Joseph Pearce (born February 12, 1961, Barking, London) is an English-born writer, and Director of the Center for Faith and Culture at Aquinas College in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Joseph Rovan

Joseph Adolphe Rovan (born Joseph Adolph Rosenthal in Munich, Germany on July 25, 1918, died August 27, 2004), was a French philosopher and politician, and is considered a spiritual father of post-war Europe.

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Joseph Saurin

Joseph Saurin (1 September 1659, Courthézon – 29 December 1737, Paris) was a French mathematician and a converted Protestant minister.

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Josephine Bakhita

Josephine Margaret Bakhita, F.D.C.C., (ca. 1869 – 8 February 1947) was a Sudanese-born former slave who became a Canossian Religious Sister in Italy, living and working there for 45 years.

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Joyce Kilmer

Joyce Kilmer (born as Alfred Joyce Kilmer; December 6, 1886 – July 30, 1918) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914.

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Judaism

Judaism (originally from Hebrew, Yehudah, "Judah"; via Latin and Greek) is the religion of the Jewish people.

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Julia Gardiner Tyler

Julia Gardiner Tyler (May 4, 1820 – July 10, 1889) was the second wife of John Tyler, who was the tenth President of the United States, and served as the First Lady of the United States from June 26, 1844, to March 4, 1845.

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Karel Schulz

Karel Schulz (6 May 1899 – 27 February 1943) was a Czech novelist, theatre critic, poet and short story writer, whose best known work is the historical novel Stone and Pain (1942; Kámen a bolest).

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Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang

Karl Freiherr von Vogelsang (3 September 1818 – 8 November 1890), a journalist, politician and Catholic social reformer, was one of the mentors of the Christian Social movement in Austria-Hungary.

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Karl Landsteiner

Karl Landsteiner,, (June 14, 1868 – June 26, 1943) was an Austrian biologist, physician, and immunologist.

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Karl Stern

Karl Stern (April 8, 1906 - November 11, 1975) was a German-Canadian neurologist and psychiatrist, and a Jewish convert to the Catholic Church.

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Kaspar Ulenberg

Kaspar Ulenberg (24 December 1549 – 16 February 1617) was a Catholic convert, theological writer and translator of the Bible.

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Kasper Franck

Kasper Franck (2 November 1543 – 12 March 1584) was a German theologian and controversialist.

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Kateri Tekakwitha

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha (in Mohawk), given the name Tekakwitha, baptized as Catherine and informally known as Lily of the Mohawks (1656 – April 17, 1680), is a Roman Catholic saint who was an Algonquin–Mohawk laywoman.

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Katharine, Duchess of Kent

Katharine, Duchess of Kent, (born Katharine Lucy Mary Worsley; 22 February 1933), is a member of the British Royal Family.

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Keichō

was a after Bunroku and before Genna.

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Keith Newton (prelate)

Keith Newton PA (born 10 April 1952) is an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Kim Dae-jung

Kim Dae-jung, or Kim Dae Jung (6 January 192418 August 2009), was a South Korean politician who served as President of South Korea from 1998 to 2003.

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Kimberly Hahn

Kimberly Hahn (née Kirk; born 1957) is a Catholic apologist and author.

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Kingdom of England

The Kingdom of England (French: Royaume d'Angleterre; Danish: Kongeriget England; German: Königreich England) was a sovereign state on the island of Great Britain from the 10th century—when it emerged from various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms—until 1707, when it united with Scotland to form the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Kingdom of Ireland

The Kingdom of Ireland (Classical Irish: Ríoghacht Éireann; Modern Irish: Ríocht Éireann) was a nominal state ruled by the King or Queen of England and later the King or Queen of Great Britain that existed in Ireland from 1542 until 1800.

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Kingdom of Scotland

The Kingdom of Scotland (Rìoghachd na h-Alba; Kinrick o Scotland) was a sovereign state in northwest Europe traditionally said to have been founded in 843.

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Kirsten Powers

Kirsten Powers (born December 14, 1967) is an American author, columnist and political analyst.

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Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning

Knud Karl Krogh-Tonning (December 31, 1842 – February 19, 1911) was a Norwegian theologian, known for his conversion to Catholicism.

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Knut Ansgar Nelson

Knut Ansgar Nelson (1 October 1906 — 31 March 1990) was a Danish-born convert to Roman Catholicism who served as bishop of Stockholm from 1957 to 1962.

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Knute Rockne

Knute Kenneth Rockne (March 4, 1888 – March 31, 1931) was a Norwegian-American football player and coach at the University of Notre Dame.

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Kuusankoski

Kuusankoski is a neighborhood of city of Kouvola, former industrial town and municipality of Finland, located in the region of Kymenlaakso in the province of Southern Finland.

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Laetare Medal

The Laetare Medal is an annual award given by the University of Notre Dame in recognition of outstanding service to the Catholic Church and society.

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Larry Kudlow

Lawrence Alan Kudlow (born August 20, 1947) is an American financial analyst and former television personality serving as Director of the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump since 2018.

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Laura Ingraham

Laura Anne Ingraham (born June 19, 1963) is an American conservative television and radio talk show host.

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Le Vin de solitude

Le Vin de solitude, published in English as The Wine of Solitude, is a novel by Russian Jewish author Irène Némirovsky (1903 – 1942), who died in the Holocaust.

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Leo Allatius

Leo Allatius (c. 1586 – January 19, 1669) (Greek: Λέων Αλλάτιος, Leon Allatios, Λιωνής Αλάτζης, Lionis Allatzis; Italian: Leone Allacci, Allacio; Latin: Leo Allatius, Allacius) was a Greek scholar, theologian, and keeper of the Vatican library.

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Leonid Feodorov

Blessed Leonid Ivanovich Feodorov (Леонид Иванович Фёдоров; 4 November 1879 – 7 March 1935) was Exarch of the Russian Byzantine Catholic Church, in addition to being a survivor of the Gulag.

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Levi Silliman Ives

Levi Silliman Ives (September 16, 1797 – October 13, 1867) was an American theologian and bishop.

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Lewis Bayly

Lewis Bayly (died 26 October 1631) was a bishop of the Church of England.

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Li Yingshi

Li Yingshi (referred to by Jesuits as Li Paul; fl. ca. 1600) was a Ming Chinese military officer and a renowned mathematician, astrologer and feng shui expert, who was among the first Chinese literati to become Christian.

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Lila Rose

Lila Grace Rose (born July 27, 1988) is an American pro-life activist and the founder of Live Action.

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List of Catholic authors

The authors listed on this page should be limited to those who identify as Catholic authors in some form.

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List of Catholic Church artists

This list of Catholic artists concerns artists known, at least in part, for their works of religious Roman Catholic art.

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List of Catholic philosophers and theologians

This is a list of philosophers and theologians whose Catholicism is important to their work.

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List of converts to the Catholic Church from Islam

The following is an incomplete list of notable individuals who converted to the Catholic Church from Islam (including to Eastern Catholic Churches).

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List of jazz pianists

This is an alphabetized list of notable musicians who play or played jazz piano.

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List of Major Archbishops of Thiruvananthapuram

The Major Archbishops of Thiruvananthapuram is the head of the Major Archdiocese of Thiruvananthapuram in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

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Livets Ord

Livets Ord, literally Word of Life, is a megachurch in Uppsala, within the Swedish Word of Faith movement.

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Lola Falana

Loletha Elayne Falana or Loletha Elaine Falana (sources differ) (born September 11, 1942), better known by her stage name Lola Falana, is an American singer, dancer, model and actress.

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Lord Nicholas Windsor

Lord Nicholas Charles Edward Jonathan Windsor (born 25 July 1970) is the youngest child of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and Katharine, Duchess of Kent, and a great-grandson of King George V. He is a first cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II.

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Lorenzo Da Ponte

Lorenzo Da Ponte (10 March 174917 August 1838) was an Italian, later American opera librettist, poet and Roman Catholic priest.

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Lou Tseng-Tsiang

Lou Tseng-Tsiang or Lu Zhengxiang (12 June 1871 – 15 January 1949) was a Chinese diplomat and a Roman Catholic monk.

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Louis Bouyer

Louis Bouyer, Cong. Orat. (17 February 1913 – 22 October 2004) was a French Lutheran minister who was received into the Catholic Church in 1939.

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Louis Fan (convert)

Louis Fan (June 13, 1682. – February 28, 1753.), born Fan Shouyi and also known as Luigi Fan, was the first known Chinese person to travel to Europe, return, and write an account of his travels.

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Love in the Ruins

Love in the Ruins (subtitle:The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World) is a novel of speculative or science fiction by author Walker Percy from 1971.

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Magdi Allam

Magdi Cristiano Allam (مجدي علام Majdī ʿAllām; born 22 April 1952), is an Egyptian-born Italian journalist and politician, noted for his criticism of Islamic extremism and his articles on the relations between Western culture and the Islamic world.

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Maggie Gallagher

Margaret Gallagher (born September 14, 1960), better known by her working name Maggie Gallagher, is an American writer and socially conservative commentator.

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Malay race

The concept of a Malay race was originally proposed by the German physician Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), and classified as a brown race.

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Malcolm Muggeridge

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was an English journalist and satirist.

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Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Bligh Turnbull (born 24 October 1954) is an Australian politician serving as the 29th and current Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the Liberal Party since 2015.

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Margaret Anna Cusack

Margaret Anna Cusack (born 6 May 1829 in a house at the corner of Mercer Street and York Street (now known as Cusack Corner), Dublin, Ireland – died 5 June 1899), also known as Sister Mary Francis Cusack and Mother Margaret, was first an Irish Anglican nun, then a Roman Catholic nun, then a religious sister and the founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, and then an Anglican (or possibly a Methodist).

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Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne

Father Ratisbonne in 1865 Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne, N.D.S., (May 1, 1814, Strasbourg, Alsace, France - May 6, 1884, Ein Karem, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire) was a French Jew who converted to Catholicism and became a Jesuit Catholic priest and missionary.

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Marie-Théodor Ratisbonne

Marie-Théodor Ratisbonne, N.D.S., (December 28, 1802 – January 10, 1884) was a French Jewish convert to the Catholic Church, who became a priest and missionary and who later founded the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion.

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Mark Barkworth

Mark Barkworth (alias Mark Lambert) was a Catholic priest and martyr (c. 1572 – 1601).

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Marshall McLuhan

Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911December 31, 1980) was a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual.

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Martin Eisengrein

Martin Eisengrein (28 December 1535 – 4 May 1578) was a German Catholic theologian, university professor and polemical writer.

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Marxism

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectical view of social transformation.

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Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer.

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Mason Proffit

Mason Proffit was a folk rock band from Champaign, Illinois that released five albums between 1969 and 1973.

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Materialism

Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds that matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and that all things, including mental aspects and consciousness, are results of material interactions.

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Maurice Baring

Maurice Baring (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent.

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Meletius Tipaldi

Meletius Tipaldi (Meletio Tipaldi, Melentije/Meletije Tipaldi, Мелентије Типалди; 1685–13 May 1713) was a bishop in Venetian Dalmatia.

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Melkite Greek Catholic Church

The Melkite (Greek) Catholic Church (كنيسة الروم الملكيين الكاثوليك) is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catholic Church.

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Meriol Trevor

Meriol Trevor (15 April 1919 – 12 January 2000) was one of the most prolific Roman Catholic women writers of the twentieth century.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Metronome magazine

Metronome Magazine (or Metronome) was a music magazine published from 1881 until 1961.

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Michael Dummett

Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett, FBA (27 June 192527 December 2011) was an English philosopher, described as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality." He was, until 1992, Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford.

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Michael Shen Fu-Tsung

Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-Tsung, also Michel Sin, Michel Chin-fo-tsoung, Shen Fo-tsung, Shen Fuzong (died 1691), By Albert Chan (2002) p.395 was a Chinese mandarin from Nanjing and a convert to Catholicism who was brought to Europe by the Walloon Jesuit priest Philippe Couplet, Procurator of the China Jesuit Missions in Rome.

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Missionaries of Charity

The Missionaries of Charity (Missionariarum a Caritate) is a Roman Catholic (Latin Church) religious congregation established in 1950 by Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.

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Moritz Gudenus

Moritz Gudenus (11 April 1596, Cassel — February 1680, Treffurt) was a German Catholic preacher and a convert to the Catholic faith from the Protestant ministry.

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Mortimer J. Adler

Mortimer Jerome Adler (December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American philosopher, educator, and popular author.

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Mother Mary Alphonsa

Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (May 20, 1851 – July 9, 1926) was an American writer.

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Moyamensing Prison

Moyamensing Prison was a prison in Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Muriel Spark

Dame Muriel Sarah Spark DBE, CLit, FRSE, FRSL (née Camberg; 1 February 1918 – 13 April 2006).

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Nathaniel Hawthorne (né Hathorne; July 4, 1804 – May 19, 1864) was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer.

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National Conference for Community and Justice

NCCJ was founded in 1927 as the National Conference of Christians and Jews, in response to anti-Catholic sentiment being expressed during Al Smith's run for the Democratic nomination.

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National Front (UK)

The National Front (NF) is a racist far-right and fascist political party in the United Kingdom.

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National Organization for Marriage

The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) is an American non-profit political organization established in 2007 to work against the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States.

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Nazarene movement

The name Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive honesty and spirituality in Christian art.

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Nazli Sabri

Nazli Sabri (نزلي صبري / نازلى صبرى; Nazlı Sabri; 25 June 1894 – 29 May 1978) was the first Queen of Egypt from 1919 to 1936 as the second wife of King Fuad.

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Neustadt International Prize for Literature

The Neustadt International Prize for Literature is a biennial award for literature sponsored by the University of Oklahoma and its international literary publication, World Literature Today.

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New Oxford Review

The New Oxford Review is a magazine of Roman Catholic cultural and theological commentary.

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Newt Gingrich

Newton Leroy Gingrich (né McPherson; born June 17, 1943) is an American politician and author, born in Pennsylvania, later representing Georgia in Congress, and ultimately serving as 50th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999.

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Nicholas Kao Se Tseien

Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, O.C.S.O. (15 January 1897 – 11 December 2007), appledaily.atnext.com; accessed 27 September 2017.

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Nicolas Steno

Nicolas Steno (Niels Steensen; Latinized to Nicolaus Stenonis or Nicolaus Stenonius; 1 January 1638 – 25 November 1686 – Aber, James S. 2007. Retrieved 11 January 2012.) was a Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later years.

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Nirmala Joshi

Nirmala Joshi, M.C. (23 July 1934 – 23 June 2015), better known as Sister Nirmala, was a Catholic Religious Sister who succeeded Nobel laureate Mother Teresa as the head of her Missionaries of Charity and expanded the movement overseas.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize (Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) is a set of six annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.

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Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature (Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that has been awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction" (original Swedish: "den som inom litteraturen har producerat det mest framstående verket i en idealisk riktning").

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Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Nobelpriset i fysiologi eller medicin), administered by the Nobel Foundation, is awarded once a year for outstanding discoveries in the fields of life sciences and medicine.

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O Come, All Ye Faithful

"O Come, All Ye Faithful" (originally written in Latin as) is a Christmas carol that has been attributed to various authors, including John Francis Wade (1711–1786), John Reading (1645–1692) and King John IV of Portugal (1604–1656), with the earliest manuscript of the hymn bearing his name, located in the library of the Ducal Palace of Vila Viçosa.

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Oblate

In Christian monasticism (especially Catholic, Anglican and Methodist), an oblate is a person who is specifically dedicated to God or to God's service.

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Oglala Lakota

The Oglala Lakota or Oglala Sioux (pronounced, meaning "to scatter one's own" in Lakota language) are one of the seven subtribes of the Lakota people who, along with the Dakota, make up the Great Sioux Nation.

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Orestes Brownson

Orestes Augustus Brownson (September 16, 1803 – April 17, 1876) was a New England intellectual and activist, preacher, labor organizer, and noted Catholic convert and writer.

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Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism is a collective term for the traditionalist branches of Judaism, which seek to maximally maintain the received Jewish beliefs and observances and which coalesced in opposition to the various challenges of modernity and secularization.

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Orthodoxy (book)

Orthodoxy (1908) is a book by G. K. Chesterton that has become a classic of Christian apologetics.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright.

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Oswald Mosley

Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet of Ancoats (16 November 1896 – 3 December 1980) was a British politician who rose to fame in the 1920s as a Member of Parliament and later in the 1930s became leader of the British Union of Fascists (BUF).

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Oxford Movement

The Oxford Movement was a movement of High Church members of the Church of England which eventually developed into Anglo-Catholicism.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is opposition to war, militarism, or violence.

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Passionists

The Passionists (Latin: Congregatio Passionis Iesu Christi) are a Roman Catholic religious institute founded by Saint Paul of the Cross with a special emphasis on the Passion of Jesus Christ.

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Pat Boone

Charles Eugene "Pat" Boone (born June 1, 1934) is an American singer, composer, actor, writer, television personality, motivational speaker, and spokesman.

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Patricia Neal

Patricia Neal (born Patsy Louise Neal; January 20, 1926 – August 8, 2010) was an American actress of stage and screen.

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Patristics

Patristics or patrology is the study of the early Christian writers who are designated Church Fathers.

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Paul Richardson (priest)

Paul Richardson (born 16 January 1947) is a British Roman Catholic priest and a former Anglican bishop.

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Paul Schenck

Paul Chaim Benedicta Schenck (born 1958) is an American ordained Catholic priest, pro-life (anti-abortion) activist and personalist.

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Paul Williams (Buddhist studies scholar)

Paul Williams (b. 1950) is Emeritus Professor of Indian and Tibetan Philosophy at the University of Bristol, England.

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Pauline Pfeiffer

Pauline Marie Pfeiffer (July 22, 1895 – October 1, 1951) was an American journalist, and the second wife of writer Ernest Hemingway.

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Paulist Fathers

The Missionary Society of Saint Paul the Apostle, better known as the Paulist Fathers, is a Roman Catholic society of apostolic life for men founded in New York City in 1858 by Servant of God Isaac Thomas Hecker in collaboration with George Deshon, Augustine Hewit, and Francis A. Baker.

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Penelope Fitzgerald

Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was an English Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer.

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Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter

The Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter is a personal ordinariate of the Catholic Church—an ecclesiastical jurisdiction, the equivalent of a diocese, for priests and laypeople from an Anglican background, that enables them to corporately retain elements of their Anglican patrimony after entering the Catholic Church—whose territory extends over the United States and Canada.

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Peter Benenson

Peter Benenson (31 July 1921 – 25 February 2005) was a British lawyer and the founder of human rights group Amnesty International (AI).

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Phenomenology (philosophy)

Phenomenology (from Greek phainómenon "that which appears" and lógos "study") is the philosophical study of the structures of experience and consciousness.

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Physician

A physician, medical practitioner, medical doctor, or simply doctor is a professional who practises medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining, or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.

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Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry.

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Point Park University

Point Park University is a liberal arts university in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Poor Servants of the Mother of God

The Poor Servants of the Mother of God are a religious congregation founded in 1872 by the venerable Mother Mary Magdalen of the Sacred Heart, Frances Margaret Taylor.

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Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Giovanni Paolo II; Jan Paweł II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła;; 18 May 1920 – 2 April 2005) served as Pope and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 to 2005.

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President of South Korea

The President of the Republic of Korea is, according to the South Korean constitution, the chairperson of the cabinet, the chief executive of the government, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, and the head of state of South Korea.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Prime Minister of Canada

The Prime Minister of Canada (Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus Canada's head of government, charged with advising the Canadian monarch or Governor General of Canada on the exercise of the executive powers vested in them by the constitution.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of the United Kingdom government.

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Princess Irene of the Netherlands

Princess Irene of the Netherlands (Irene Emma Elisabeth; born 5 August 1939) is the second child of Queen Juliana of the Netherlands and Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld.

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Prose

Prose is a form of language that exhibits a natural flow of speech and grammatical structure rather than a rhythmic structure as in traditional poetry, where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme.

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Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

The Pulitzer Prize for Poetry is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes that are annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music.

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Puteri Indonesia

Puteri Indonesia (literally translates into "Princess of Indonesia"), or also known as Miss Universe Indonesia, is a beauty pageant in Indonesia that selects the winner to represent the country in the Miss Universe, one of the Big Four international beauty pageants.

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Qing dynasty

The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912.

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Quota Borda system

The Quota Borda system or quota preference score is a voting system that was devised by the British philosopher Michael Dummett and first published in 1984 in his book, Voting Procedures, and again in his Principles of Electoral Reform.

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R. J. Stove

Robert James Stove (born 1961 in Sydney) is an Australian writer, editor, composer and organist.

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Rajah Humabon

Rajah Humabon, later baptized as Don Carlos, was the Rajah of Cebu at the time of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan's arrival in the Philippines in 1521.

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Rajah Tupas

Rajah Tupas (baptized as Felipe Tupás, 1497 — 1565) was the last Rajah of Cebu in the Pre-Hispanic Philippines.

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Ralph Sherwin

Saint Ralph Sherwin (25 October 1550 – 1 December 1581) was an English Roman Catholic priest, executed in 1581.

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Recollects

The Recollects (Récollets) were a French reform branch of the Order of Friars Minor, commonly known today as the Franciscans (Ordo fratrum minorum recollectorum).

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Rector of the University of Edinburgh

The Lord Rector of the University of Edinburgh is elected every three years by the students and staff at the University of Edinburgh.

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Regina Derieva

Regina Derieva (a; February 7, 1949 – December 11, 2013) was a Russian poet and writer who published around thirty books of poetry, essays, and prose.

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Reinhard Hütter

Reinhard Hütter (born 1 November 1958 in Lichtenfels, Bavaria) is a Christian theologian and Professor of Christian Theology at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina.

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Reinhard Sorge

Reinhard Sorge (29 January 1892, Berlin, German Empire – 20 July 1916, Ablaincourt, France) was a German dramatist and poet.

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Religion

Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.

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Religious conversion

Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others.

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Religious sister

Religious sister in the Catholic Church refers to a woman who has taken public vows in a religious institute dedicated to apostolic works, as distinguished from a nun who lives a cloistered monastic life dedicated to prayer.

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Rianti Cartwright

Rianti Rhiannon Cartwright (born 22 September 1983 in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia) is Indonesian actress, model, presenter and VJ.

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Richard Crashaw

Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 21 August 1649), was an English poet, teacher, Anglican cleric and Catholic convert, who was among the major figures associated with the metaphysical poets in seventeenth-century English literature.

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Richard Gilmour

Richard Gilmour (September 28, 1824 – April 13, 1891) was a Scottish-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Richard John Neuhaus

Richard John Neuhaus (May 14, 1936 – January 8, 2009) was a prominent Christian cleric (first as an Evangelical Lutheran pastor and later as a Roman Catholic priest) and writer.

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Richard Simpson (writer)

Richard Simpson (16 September 1820–5 April 1876) was a British Roman Catholic writer and literary scholar.

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Righteous Among the Nations

Righteous Among the Nations (חֲסִידֵי אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם, khasidei umót ha'olám "righteous (plural) of the world's nations") is an honorific used by the State of Israel to describe non-Jews who risked their lives during the Holocaust to save Jews from extermination by the Nazis.

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RMS Titanic

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City.

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Robert Bork

Robert Heron Bork (March 1, 1927 – December 19, 2012) was an American judge, government official, and legal scholar who advocated the judicial philosophy of originalism.

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Robert Hugh Benson

Robert Hugh Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS (18 November 1871 – 19 October 1914) was an English Anglican priest who in 1903 was received into the Roman Catholic Church in which he was ordained priest in 1904.

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Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 – September 12, 1977) was an American poet.

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Robert Novak

Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novak (February 26, 1931 – August 18, 2009) was an American syndicated columnist, journalist, television personality, author, and conservative political commentator.

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Robert Sutton (martyr)

Robert Sutton (d. 27 July 1587 at Stafford) was an English Roman Catholic priest.

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Robert William Wilcox

Robert William Kalanihiapo Wilcox (February 15, 1855 – October 23, 1903), nicknamed the Iron Duke of Hawaii, was a Native Hawaiian revolutionary soldier and politician.

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Rod Dreher

Ray Oliver "Rod" Dreher (born February 14, 1967) is an American writer and editor.

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Roman Catholic Archbishop of Atlanta

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Atlanta is the Ordinary of the Archdiocese of Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia in the United States.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta

The Archdiocese of Atlanta is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark

The Archdiocese of Newark is an archdiocese of the Catholic Church in northeastern New Jersey, United States.

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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Paris (Latin: Archidioecesis Parisiensis; French: Archidiocèse de Paris) is one of twenty-three archdioceses of the Roman Catholic Church in France.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland (Dioecesis Clevelandensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in Ohio.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus (Dioecesis Columbensis) is a Roman Catholic diocese in the Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati covering 23 counties in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong

The Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong (Dioecesis Sciiamchiamensis) is a Latin Rite ordinary diocese of the Catholic Church headed by Bishop Michael Yeung Ming-cheung.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo (Osloënsis) is an exempt diocese located in the city of Oslo in Norway.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pamiers, Couserans, and Mirepoix (Latin: Dioecesis Apamiensis, Couseranensis, et Mirapicensis; French: Diocèse de Pamiers, Mirepoix, et Couserans) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in southern France.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Thomas

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Thomas (Dioecesis Sancti Thomae in Insulis Virgineis) is a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Caribbean.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm

The Diocese of Stockholm (Dioecesis Holmiensis; Stockholms katolska stift) is an exempt Latin Catholic ecclesiastical bishopric in Sweden and the only Roman Catholic diocese established in Sweden since the Protestant Reformation.

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Ronald Firbank

Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank (17 January 1886 – 21 May 1926) was an innovative English novelist.

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Roy Campbell (poet)

Ignatius Royston Dunnachie Campbell, better known as Roy Campbell, (2 October 1901 – 23 April 1957) was a South African poet and satirist.

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Ruffa Gutierrez

Sharmaine Ruffa Rama Gutierrez (born June 24, 1974) is a Filipino model, beauty queen and actress.

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Rumer Godden

Margaret Rumer Godden OBE (10 December 1907 – 8 November 1998) was an English author of more than 60 fiction and nonfiction books written under the name of Rumer Godden.

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Russell Kirk

Russell Amos Kirk (October 19, 1918 – April 29, 1994) was an American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, and literary critic, known for his influence on 20th-century American conservatism.

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Russian Greek Catholic Church

The Russian Greek Catholic Church (Российская греко-католическая церковь, Rossiyskaya greko-katolicheskaya tserkov) or also called Russian Catholic Church is a Byzantine Rite Catholic Church sui juris in full union with the Roman Catholic Church.

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Russian symbolism

Russian symbolism was an intellectual and artistic movement predominant at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.

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Saint

A saint (also historically known as a hallow) is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God.

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Sally Read

Sally Read (born 1971 in Suffolk) is a British poet and former psychiatric nurse.

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Sam Brownback

Samuel Dale Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat serving as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom since 2018.

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Sandro Magister

Sandro Magister (born 1943) is an Italian journalist who writes for the magazine L'espresso.

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Sarah Peter

Sarah Anne Worthington King Peter (10 May 1800, Chillicothe, Ohio - 6 February 1877, Cincinnati) was an American philanthropist and patron of the arts.

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Scalawag

In United States history, scalawags were white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party, after the American Civil War.

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Scientism

Scientism is the ideology of science.

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Scott Hahn

Scott W. Hahn (born October 28, 1957) is an American Roman Catholic theologian.

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Secondary conversion

In the sociology of religion, secondary conversion is the religious conversion of an individual that results from a relationship with another convert, rather than from any particular aspect of the new religion.

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Secretary of state

The title secretary of state or state secretary is commonly used for senior or mid-level posts in governments around the world.

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Sheldon Vanauken

Sheldon Vanauken (August 4, 1914 – October 28, 1996) was an American author, best known for his autobiographical book A Severe Mercy (1977), which recounts his and his wife's friendship with C. S. Lewis, their conversion to Christianity, and dealing with tragedy.

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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier.

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Sigi Wimala

Sigi Wimala Somya Dewi (born June 21, 1983), more popularly known as Sigi Wimala, is an Indonesian model and actress.

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Sigiswald Kuijken

Sigiswald Kuijken (born 16 February 1944) is a Belgian violinist, violist, and conductor known for playing on authentic instruments.

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Sigrid Undset

Sigrid Undset (20 May 1882 – 10 June 1949) was a Norwegian novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928.

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Simeon Vratanja

Simeon Vratanja (ca. 1600–d. 1630) was the first bishop of the Eparchy of Vretanija (1609–11), the westernmost eparchy of the Serbian Patriarchate of Peć, and the first bishop of the Eastern Catholic Bishopric of Marča (1611–28).

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Sir Henry Fletcher, 3rd Baronet, of Hutton le Forest

Sir Henry Fletcher, 3rd Baronet (April 1661 – 19 May 1712) was an English baronet and politician.

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Sister Gregory Kirkus

Sister Gregory Kirkus (9 November 1910 – 30 August 2007) was an English Roman Catholic nun, educator, historian and archivist.

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Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel

The Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel are members of a Carmelite religious institute dedicated to female education.

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Small Is Beautiful

Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays by German born British economist E. F. Schumacher.

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Society of Jesus

The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.

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Sophie Swetchine

Anne Sophie Swetchine (née Sofia Petrovna Soymonova; November 22, 17821857), known as Madame Swetchine, was a Russian mystic, born in Moscow, and famous for her salon in Paris.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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Southern Ming

The Southern Ming was a loyalist movement that was active in southern China following the Ming dynasty's collapse in 1644.

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Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

The Speaker of the House is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives.

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Stephan Kuttner

Stephan George Kuttner (March 24, 1907 in Bonn – August 12, 1996 in Berkeley), an expert in Canon Law, was recognized as a leader in the discovery, interpretation and analysis of important texts and manuscripts that are key to understanding the evolution of legal systems from Roman law to modern constitutional law.

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Su Xuelin

Su Xuelin or Su Hsüeh-lin (24 February 1897 in Rui'an, Zhejiang – 21 April 1999 in Tainan, Taiwan) was a Chinese author and scholar.

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Suite française (Némirovsky novel)

Suite française ("French Suite") is the title of a planned sequence of five novels by Irène Némirovsky, a French writer of Ukrainian-Jewish origin.

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Sultan

Sultan (سلطان) is a position with several historical meanings.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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Susan Hayward

Susan Hayward (born Edythe Marrenner; June 30, 1917 – March 14, 1975) was an American actress and singer.

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Sven Stolpe

Sven Stolpe (24 August 1905 in Stockholm – 26 August 1996 in Filipstad) was a Swedish writer, translator, journalist, literary scholar and critic.

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Sylvester Horton Rosecrans

Sylvester Horton Rosecrans (February 5, 1827 – October 21, 1878) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Syriac language

Syriac (ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ), also known as Syriac Aramaic or Classical Syriac, is a dialect of Middle Aramaic.

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Tabariji

Tabariji or Tabarija (1521–1542) was the Sultan of the Sultanate of Ternate, which also included Amboina and other islands beginning in 1532.

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Takashi Nagai

was a Catholic physician specializing in radiology, an author and survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

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Tennessee Williams

Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III (March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983) was an American playwright.

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Texas Monthly

Texas Monthly is a monthly American magazine headquartered in Downtown Austin, Texas.

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The Angel in the House

The Angel in the House is a narrative poem by Coventry Patmore, first published in 1854 and expanded until 1862.

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The Bells of Nagasaki

is a 1949 book by Takashi Nagai.

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The Chinese Convert

The Chinese Convert is a famous 1687 painting by Godfrey Kneller depicting the Chinese man Michael Alphonsius Shen Fu-Tsung.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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The Devil in the White City

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Crown Publishers) is a 2003 historical non-fiction book by Erik Larson presented in a novelistic style.

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The Diddakoi

The Diddakoi is a 1972 novel for children by Rumer Godden.

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The Everlasting Man

The Everlasting Man is a Christian apologetics book written by G. K. Chesterton, published in 1925.

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The Highwayman (poem)

"The Highwayman" is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in the August 1906 issue of Blackwood's Magazine, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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The medium is the message

"The medium is the message" is a phrase coined by Marshall McLuhan meaning that the form of a medium embeds itself in any message it would transmit or convey, creating a symbiotic relationship by which the medium influences how the message is perceived.

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The Moviegoer

The Moviegoer is the debut novel by Walker Percy, first published in the United States by Vintage in 1961.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Power and the Glory

The Power and the Glory (1940) is a novel by British author Graham Greene.

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (novel)

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a novel by Muriel Spark, the best known of her works.

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The Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace

__notoc__ The Sisters of St.

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The Tablet

The Tablet is a self-described progressive Catholic international weekly review published in London.

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Theodor Haecker

Theodor Haecker (June 4, 1879 in Eberbach, Grand Duchy of Baden - April 9, 1945 in Ustersbach) was a German writer, translator and cultural critic.

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Theology

Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine.

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Thirty-nine Articles

The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion (commonly abbreviated as the Thirty-nine Articles or the XXXIX Articles) are the historically defining statements of doctrines and practices of the Church of England with respect to the controversies of the English Reformation.

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Thomas Aufield

The Blessed Thomas Aufield (1552 – 6 July 1585), also called Thomas Alfield, was an English Roman Catholic martyr.

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Thomas Bailey (priest)

Thomas Bailey or Bayly (died c. 1657) was a seventeenth-century English religious controversialist, a Royalist Church of England clergyman who converted to Roman Catholicism.

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Thomas Byles

Thomas Roussel Davids Byles (26 February 1870 – 15 April 1912) was an English Catholic priest who was a passenger aboard the RMS Titanic on its maiden voyage when it sank after striking an iceberg during the night of 15 April 1912.

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Thomas Ewing

Thomas Ewing Sr. (December 28, 1789October 26, 1871) was a National Republican and Whig politician from Ohio.

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Thomas Ewing Sherman

Fr.

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Thomas Merton

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was a Catalan Trappist monk of American nationality.

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Thomas Morton Harper

Thomas Norton Harper (26 September 1821 - 29 August 1893) was an English Jesuit priest, philosopher, theologian and preacher.

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Thomas William Allies

Thomas William Allies (12 February 1813 – 17 June 1903) was an English historical writer specializing in religious subjects.

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Thomas Woods

Thomas Ernest Woods Jr. (born August 1, 1972) is an American historian, political commentator, author, and podcaster.

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Thomas Worthington (governor)

Thomas Worthington (July 16, 1773June 20, 1827) was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio.

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Thomism

Thomism is the philosophical school that arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church.

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Three Pillars of Chinese Catholicism

Xú Guāngqǐ (Wade–Giles: Hsü Kuang-ch'i; 徐光啓, 1562–1633) of Shanghai, and Lǐ Zhīzǎo (Wade–Giles: Li Chih-tsao; 李之藻, 1565 – November 1, 1630) and Yáng Tíngyún (Wade–Giles: Yang T'ing-yün; 楊廷筠, 1557–1627) both of Hangzhou, are known as the Three Great Pillars of Chinese Catholicism (聖教三柱石, literally the "Holy Religion's Three Pillar-Stones").

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Tibetan Buddhism

Tibetan Buddhism is the form of Buddhist doctrine and institutions named after the lands of Tibet, but also found in the regions surrounding the Himalayas and much of Central Asia.

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Tim Conway

Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway (born December 15, 1933) is an American actor, writer, director, and comedian.

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Time Life

Direct Holdings Global LLC, through its subsidiaries StarVista Live, Lifestyle Products Group and Time Life, is a creator and direct marketer that is known for selling books, music, video/DVD, and multimedia products.

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Timo Soini

Timo Juhani Soini (born 30 May 1962) is a Finnish politician who is the co-founder and former leader of the Finns Party.

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Tobie Matthew

Sir Tobie Matthew (also sometimes spelt Mathew; 3 October 157713 October 1655), born in Salisbury, was an English member of parliament and courtier who converted to Roman Catholicism and became a priest.

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Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007.

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Translation

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

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Trappists

The Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (OCSO: Ordo Cisterciensis Strictioris Observantiae) is a Catholic religious order of cloistered contemplative monastics who follow the Rule of St. Benedict.

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Ulf Ekman

Ulf Ekman (born 8 December 1950 in Gothenburg) is a former charismatic pastor and the founder of the charismatic Livets Ord (Word of Life) organization in Sweden, which brought the Word of Faith movement to that country.

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Union Army

During the American Civil War, the Union Army referred to the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the Union of the collective states.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Poet Laureate

The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the official poet of the United States.

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University of St Andrews

The University of St Andrews (informally known as St Andrews University or simply St Andrews; abbreviated as St And, from the Latin Sancti Andreae, in post-nominals) is a British public research university in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.

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Uppsala

Uppsala (older spelling Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth largest city of Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

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Veit Amerbach

Veit Amerbach (also Vitus Amerpachius) (born in 1503 in Wemding, Germany - died on September 13, 1557 in Ingolstadt, Germany), was a German Lutheran theologian, scholar and humanist, who converted to Catholicism.

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Veit Erbermann

Veit Erbermann (or Ebermann) (born on 25 May 1597 – died on 8 April 1675) was a German theologian and controversialist.

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Veronica of the Passion

Mother Mary Veronica of the Passion, O.C.D. founded the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel (October 1, 1823–November 11, 1906), a religious congregation of the Discalced Carmelite Third Order for women based in India.

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Vincent Price

Vincent Leonard Price Jr. (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and performances in horror films.

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Virtue ethics

Virtue ethics (or aretaic ethics, from Greek ἀρετή (arete)) are normative ethical theories which emphasize virtues of mind and character.

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Vittorio Messori

Vittorio Messori (born 1941) is an Italian journalist and writer.

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Vladimir Abrikosov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Abrikosov (22 October 1880 – 22 July 1966) was a Catholic priest of the Byzantine rite who converted from Russian Orthodoxy, and a member of Russian apostolate in the Diaspora.

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Vladimir Ghika

Vladimir Ghika or Ghica (25 December 1873 – 16 May 1954) was a Romanian diplomat and essayist who, after his conversion from Romanian Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism, became a priest.

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Vladimir Pecherin

Father Vladimir Sergeyvich Pecherin (Владимир Сергеевич Печерин) (1807–1885), was a controversial Russian political figure both in 19th-century Ireland and in Russia.

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Vyacheslav Ivanov (poet)

Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov (Вячесла́в Ива́нович Ива́нов; – 16 July 1949) was a Russian poet and playwright associated with the Russian Symbolist movement.

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Walker Percy

Walker Percy, Obl.S.B. (May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990) was an American author from Covington, Louisiana, whose interests included philosophy and semiotics.

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Walter B. Jones Jr.

Walter Beaman Jones Jr. (born February 10, 1943) is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 1995.

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Walter Hooper

Walter McGehee Hooper (born March 27, 1931) is a literary advisor of the estate of C.S. Lewis.

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Walter M. Miller Jr.

Walter Michael Miller Jr. (January 23, 1923 – January 9, 1996) was an American science fiction writer.

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Władysław Anders

Władysław Albert Anders (11 August 1892 – 12 May 1970) was a general in the Polish Army and later in life a politician and prominent member of the Polish government-in-exile in London.

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Wesley Clark

Wesley Kanne Clark, Sr. (born December 23, 1944) is a retired General of the United States Army.

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Wesley Sneijder

Wesley Sneijder (born 9 June 1984) is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Qatar Stars League club Al-Gharafa and previously the Netherlands national team.

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William E. Orchard

William Edwin Orchard (20 November 1877 – 12 June 1955) was first a Presbyterian, then Congregationalist minister, who subsequently converted to the Roman Catholic Church and was ordained a priest of this Church.

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William Everson

William "Bill" Everson (September 10, 1912 – June 3, 1994), also known as Brother Antoninus, was an American poet of the San Francisco Renaissance and was also a literary critic, teacher and small press printer.

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William George Ward

William George Ward (21 March 1812 – 6 July 1882) was an English theologian and mathematician.

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William Henry Anderdon

William Henry Anderdon (26 December 1816 – 28 July 1890) was an English Jesuit and writer, born in London.

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William Kurelek

William Kurelek, CM (March 3, 1927 – November 3, 1977) was a Canadian artist and writer.

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William Lockhart (priest)

William Lockhart (22 August 1820 – 15 May 1892) was an English Roman Catholic priest; the first of the Tractarian Movement to convert from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism.

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William Maziere Brady

William Maziere Brady (1825–1894) was an Irish priest, ecclesiastical historian and journalist who converted to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism.

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William Munk

William Munk (1824 September 1816 – 20 December 1898) was an English physician, now remembered for his work as a medical historian and "Munk's Roll", a biographical reference work on the Royal College of Physicians.

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William Reynolds (theologian)

William Reynolds (also Rainolds, Raynolds, Latin Reginaldus) (c.1544 at Pinhorn near Exeter – 24 August 1594 at Antwerp) was an English Roman Catholic theologian and Biblical scholar.

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William Rosecrans

William Starke Rosecrans (September 6, 1819March 11, 1898) was an American inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and U.S. Army officer.

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William Tecumseh Sherman

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891) was an American soldier, businessman, educator, and author.

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Wilton Daniel Gregory

Wilton Daniel Gregory (born December 7, 1947) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who is the Archbishop of Atlanta.

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Women's suffrage

Women's suffrage (colloquial: female suffrage, woman suffrage or women's right to vote) --> is the right of women to vote in elections; a person who advocates the extension of suffrage, particularly to women, is called a suffragist.

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Word of Faith

Word of Faith (also known as Word-Faith or simply Faith) is a worldwide Christian movement that teaches that Christians can access the power of faith or fear through speech.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Wu Li

Wu Li; ca.

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Xu Guangqi

Xu Guangqi or Hsü Kuang-ch'i (April 24, 1562– November 8, 1633), also known by his baptismal name Paul, was a Chinese scholar-bureaucrat, Catholic convert, agricultural scientist, astronomer, and mathematician under the Ming dynasty.

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Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem (יָד וַשֵׁם; literally, "a monument and a name") is Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust.

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Yuna Kim

Yuna Kim (born September 5, 1990, in Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province), also credited in eastern name order as Kim Yuna or Kim Yeon-ah, is a South Korean former professional figure skater.

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Zacharias Werner

Friedrich Ludwig Zacharias Werner (November 18, 1768 – January 17, 1823) was a German poet, dramatist, and preacher.

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Zhu Youlang

The Yongli Emperor (1623–1662; reigned 18 November 1646 – 1 June 1662), personal name Zhu Youlang, was the fourth and last emperor of the Southern Ming dynasty of China.

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1972 Whitbread Awards

Winner.

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