I am glad to place this collection where it will be of so much benefit to students of history, yet I must confess I feel as if I were bidding good bye to friends who have become very dear to me…I have grown to love them for the many hours of pleasure they have afforded Read More
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The Archivist’s Nook: A Patron “Saint” – The Bookish Legacy of Msgr. Arthur Connolly
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The Archivist’s Nook: The Pope’s Bombshell
Mary Ann Glendon tends to inspire contradictions. The Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University and a former United States Ambassador to the Holy See, Glendon has been labelled a modest “water-and-soap type” at one extreme and “the Pope’s bombshell” at the other (see Notes 1 and 2). Much of the confusion about Glendon Read More
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