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Rome vs. the ‘Modernists'

R. Scott Appleby

With the advent of a new millennium, what some have called “The American Century” officially came to an end seven years ago. The significance of the United States’ rise to world power and, eventually, to lone superpower status, marked as it was by unprecedented economic, military, and cultural influence around the world, will continue to be debated, and experienced, for d (...)


 

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R. Scott Appleby, director of the Kroc Center for Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, is co-editor of the forthcoming Peacebuilding: Catholic Theology, Ethics and Praxis.

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