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CELEBRATING THE ANNUNCIATION IN A BIG WAY: Happy Birthday, Mr. Monaghan!

I wasn't really there, in the orphanage. My imagination is at work and has produced, no doubt, a jumble of truths and conjecture and flourishes. But here is the story, as I see it. * * * * * The boy was only four when his father, a truck driver, died, leaving him with his brother […]

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HAIL, MARY, FULL OF GRACE: A New Look at the Annunciation

On March 25—exactly nine months before Christmas—the Catholic Church commemorates the Annunciation, when the Angel Gabriel appeared to a young Jewish girl and told her that God would like her to be the mother of the Savior. “How can this be,” Mary responded, “since I know not man?” Contemporary artist John Collier tells the story […]

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