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Article His Bleak Materials Characters in the fiction of J. F. Powers reveal the limitations and consolations of belief, and his work affirms his faith even as it challenges it By Jeffrey Meyers July 18, 2017 Books Priesthood Domestic Affairs U.S. Catholicism
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