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121) The omega factor
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Description
The Ghent Altarpiece is the most violated work of art in the world. Thirteen times it has been vandalized, dismantled, or stolen. Why? What secrets does it hold? Enter UNESCO investigator, Nicholas Lee, who works for the United Nations' Cultural Liaisonand Investigative Office (CLIO). Nick's job is to protect the world's cultural artifacts-including countless lesser-known objects and national treasures. When Nick travels to Belgium for a visit with...
Author
Publisher
Celebra
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 354 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"En este libro personal y altamente controversial, el Padre Alberto Cutié habla de la devastadora lucha entre las promesas que había hecho como sacerdote y el amor por una mujer..."--Dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
2018.
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pages cm
Description
"In the summer of 1780, mob violence swept through London. Nearly one thousand people were killed, looting was widespread, and torch-bearing protestors marched on the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street. These were the Gordon Riots: the worst civil disturbance in British history, triggered by an act of Parliament designed to loosen two centuries of systemic oppression of Catholics in the British Isles. While many Londoners saw their homes...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
vii, 420 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
A practical, spiritual guidebook based on the life and teachings of St. Ignatius of Loyola shows readers how to manage relationships, money, work, prayer, and decision making, while keeping a sense of humor about life.
128) Doubt
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
1964, St. Nicholas in the Bronx. Father Flynn is a charismatic priest who is trying to upend the schools' strict customs, which have long been fiercely guarded by Sister Aloysius Beauvier. The Sister is the iron-gloved principal who believes in the power of fear and discipline. With the winds of political change, the school has just accepted its first black student, Donald Miller. But when Sister James shares with Sister Aloysius her suspicion that...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiv, 513 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"A magisterial history of the centuries-long conflict between "progress" and "tradition" in the world's largest international institution. The story of Roman Catholicism has never followed a singular path. In no time period has this been more true than over the last two centuries. Beginning with the French Revolution, extending to the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s, and concluding with present-day crises, John T. McGreevy chronicles the dramatic...
133) Léon Morin, priest
Series
Criterion collection volume 572
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In Nazi-occupied France, a devoted priest is desired by all the women of his village, but finds himself most drawn to a religious skeptic who turns their relationship into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire.
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