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Beyond Kristin Lavransdatter: Sigrid Undset as convert, intellectual, reader of hearts

August 23, 2022 Rachel Hoover Canto 4

Sigrid Undset (1882-1949) is most famous for her award-winning Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy. But she wrote much more than that epic work of historical fiction. Sigrid Undset: Reader of Hearts, a new biography and study of […]

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One of the most exciting works of fiction ever is a Catholic novel

September 9, 2021 Russell Shaw 9

If you think a novel set in 14th century Norway has to be dull, think again. Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter is such a book, and far from being a bore, it is surely one of […]

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A Deeper Context: Overlooked book provides insight into Vatican II debates

September 2, 2020 Conor Dugan 68

In the first year of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI famously recalled the Second Vatican Council, which had ended 40 years previously. Benedict, with the steely-eyed realism that has marked his whole life, posed hard […]

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From Evangelicalism to Feminism to Catholicism: A conversation with Abigail Favale

July 18, 2019 Carl E. Olson 13

Dr. Abigail Rine Favale graduated from George Fox University with a philosophy degree in 2005, and then earned her doctorate at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. She currently heads the William Penn Honors […]

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