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Le Bulldozer

The Achievement of Cardinal Lustiger

Steven Englund

What is the fate-“grace,” some would say-that brings a fourteen-year-old named Aaron, grandson of a Polish rabbi and the son of humble French shopkeepers, to embrace Christianity with such profundity that he will one day die as the cardinal archbishop of Paris? The grace given to Cardinal Aaron Jean-Marie Lustiger—and grace is the only word for it-was to dis (...)


 

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Steven Englund has been writing about France for Commonweal for nearly four decades. He is currently writing a book on comparative political anti-Semitism in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and France, in the period between 1870 and 1920.

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