Excerpt from Memoirs of Sister Mary of Mercy Kéruel: Religious of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, 1880 1910, Taken From the French Life Published at Angers, 1913
So perfectly did she understand the beauty of her vocation and the means for carrying it out to the full. Nevertheless, she had hardly begun her religious life when, a few months after her Proies sion, she left all who loved her so dearly on earth, in order to be united to ...
An examination of the life and work of the Texas novelist which focuses on his apparently deep ambivalence toward his home territory. 5x7. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Uncommon men spread the uncommon news of Texas. From the time a press first reached Texas in 1813 until the Civil War, some four hundred newspapers appeared to chronicle the development of a nation, then a state. Most were propaganda or special-purpose sheets that allowed their owners to support or oppose the day's leading figures-including Mirabeau B. Lamar and Sam Houston-or causes-the Texan Revolution, annexation, Know-Nothingism, secession...
By the end of the nineteenth century the cattle industry in northern Mexico was thriving. Large haciendas, based on the peonage system and many of them foreign-owned, produced hundreds of thousands of head of cattle that enriched "hacendados" and filled ranges in both Mexico and the United States. But the Revolution of 1910 overturned Mexico's social and economic structure, and by the 1920s large holdings were being broken up and almost 70 per...
Cold Anger" is an important book about the empowerment of working-class communities through church-based social activism. Such activism is certainly not new, but the conscious merger of community organizing tactics with religious beliefs may be. The organizing approach comes from Aul Alinsky and his Industrial Areas Foundations (IAF). . . . The book is structured around the polifical life of Ernesto Cortes Jr., the lead IAF organizer who has e...
Excerpt from Whither Bound?
This world is poor from shore to shore,
And, like a baseless vision,
Its lofty domes and brilliant ore,
Its gems and crowns are vain and poor -
There's nothing rich but heaven.
Empires decay and nations die,
Our hopes to winds are given,
The vernal blooms in ruins lie,
Death reigns o'er all beneath the sky -
There's nothing sure but heaven.
Creation's mighty fabric all
Shall be to atoms riven,
The skies co...
