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Barbara Wall (writer)
Barbara Wall (''née'' Barbara Lucas; 1911 – 8 April 2009) was an English Catholic writer active in organizations linked to Catholic peace traditions. In 1972 she received the Benemerenti medal for her work for peace. She wrote under her maiden name, Barbara Lucas, and was a founder of the British version of ''The Catholic Worker''. She also did numerous translations. She was the mother of Bernardine Bishop and the grandmother of Matt Bishop Matt Bishop (born 25 December 1962) is an English journalist, author, novelist and public relations executive. After leaving the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Holland Park, in 1981, he failed to qualify as a London bus driver and then worked a .... Partial bibliography * ''Stars were Born'' (1936) * ''The Trembling of the Sea'' (1938) * ''Anna Collett'' (1948) References Recipients of the Benemerenti medal English Roman Catholic writers Catholic Workers 1911 births 2009 deaths {{England-novelist-stub ...
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A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth register may by that fact alone become the person's legal name. The assumption in the Western world is often that the name from birth (or perhaps from baptism or ''brit milah'') will persist to adulthood in the normal course of affairs—either throughout life or until marriage. Some possible changes concern middle names, diminutive forms, changes relating to parental status (due to one's parents' divorce or adoption by different parents). Matters are very different in some cultures in which a birth name is for childhood only, rather than for life. Maiden and married names The French and English-adopted terms née and né (; , ) denote an original surname at birth. The term ''née'', having feminine grammatical gender, can be u ...
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Catholic Peace Traditions
Catholic peace traditions begin with its biblical and classical origins and continue on to the current practice in the twenty-first century. Because of its long history and breadth of geographical and cultural diversity, this Catholic tradition encompasses many strains and influences of both religious and secular peacemaking and many aspects of Christian pacifism, just war and nonviolence. Catholic tradition as a whole supports and favours peacemaking efforts. Peacemaking is an integral part of Catholic social teaching. Definitions The history of peacemaking in the Catholic tradition reflects the religious meanings of peace, tied to positive virtues, such as love, and to the personal and social works of justice. The Greek word for peace is ''eirene''; Roman ''pax'', and in the Hebrew Bible, ''shalom''. For the earliest Romans, "pax" meant to live in a state of agreement, where discord and war were absent. In his ''Meditations'', or ''To Himself'', the Roman Emperor Marcus Aure ...
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The Catholic Worker
''Catholic Worker'' is a newspaper published seven times a year by the flagship Catholic Worker community in New York City. The newspaper was started by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin to make people aware of church teaching on social justice. History It first appeared on May first, 1933 in an edition of 2,500 copies, to make people aware of the social justice teaching of the Catholic Church as an alternative to communism during the Depression. Its stated goal was to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. Circulation rapidly rose to 25,000 within a few months, and reached 150,000 by 1936. The ''Catholic Worker'' lost thousands of subscribers because of its strict pacifist stance and refusal to join in the call for U.S. involvement in World War II. Dorothy Day was the editor of ''Catholic Worker'' until her death in 1980. The ''Catholic Worker'' covered the Civil rights movement in great depth as liturgically based social action. Writers for the paper have r ...
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Bernardine Bishop
Bernardine Anna Livia Mary Bishop (née Wall; 16 August 1939 – 4 July 2013) was an English novelist, teacher and psychotherapist.24 July 201"Bernardine Bishop obituary" ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved 10 April 2015 Her first novel, ''Perspectives'', was published by Hutchinson in 1961. During a half-century break between publishing her first two novels and her third, the 2013 Costa prize-nominated ''Unexpected Lessons In Love'', she brought up a family, taught, and practised as a psychotherapist.Tumulty, Desmond (5 July 2013"Bernardine Bishop obituary" ''The Guardian''. Retrieved 10 April 2015 Diagnosed with cancer of the colon in 2008, and subsequently forced to give up her psychotherapy work because of the illness, she reinvigorated her literary career by writing three novels, of which ''Unexpected Lessons In Love'' was the first. The book had only just been published when, having been informed that her condition was terminal, she decided to withdraw from chemotherapy and "turn ...
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Matt Bishop
Matt Bishop (born 25 December 1962) is an English journalist, author, novelist and public relations executive. After leaving the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Holland Park, in 1981, he failed to qualify as a London bus driver and then worked as a bookmaker, a betting-shop manager, and a minicab driver until the 1990s, when he began to freelance as a writer for '' Sporting Life'' and applied to university to study psychology. Dropping out after a year, he began his full-time writing career at ''Car'' magazine in 1993, becoming features editor, then in September 1995 moved to ''Focus'' magazine as deputy editor then acting editor, before joining ''F1 Racing'' (now renamed ''GP Racing'') magazine as editor in December 1996, remaining until September 2007. ''F1 Racing'' has been credited with transforming the coverage of Formula 1 in print, and became the world's best-selling Formula 1 magazine, selling 1.25 million copies worldwide during Bishop's tenure. In the wake of the 2007 ...
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English Roman Catholic Writers
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national identity, an identity and common culture ** English language in England, a variant of the English language spoken in England * English languages (other) * English studies, the study of English language and literature * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity Individuals * English (surname), a list of notable people with the surname ''English'' * People with the given name ** English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer ** English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach ** English Gardner (b. 1992), American track and field sprinter Places United States * English, Indiana, a town * English, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * English, Brazoria County, Texas, an unincorporated communi ...
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Catholic Workers
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 ''sui iuris'' churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies located around the world. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church. The bishopric of Rome, known as the Holy See, is the central governing authority of the church. The administrative body of the Holy See, the Roman Curia, has its principal offices in Vatican City, a small enclave of the Italian city of Rome, of which the pope is head of state. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it is the ...
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1911 Births
A notable ongoing event was the Comparison of the Amundsen and Scott Expeditions, race for the South Pole. Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 Moment magnitude scale, moment magnitude strikes near Almaty in Russian Turkestan, killing 450 or more people. ** Siege of Sidney Street in London: Two Latvian people, Latvian anarchists die, after a seven-hour siege against a combined police and military force. Home Secretary Winston Churchill arrives to oversee events. * January 5 – Egypt's Zamalek SC is founded as a general sports and Association football club by Belgian lawyer George Merzbach as Qasr El Nile Club. * January 14 – Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall, on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf. * January 18 – Eugene B. El ...
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