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The Bread of Angels: A Journey to Love and Faith; by Stephanie Saldana; Doubleday; 2010, hardcover, 309 pp.; $24.95.
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Stephanie Saldaña's book follows complex journey to faith
Reviewed by Carol Baass Sowa
Today's Catholic
A hefty memoir by a young woman barely into her 30s involving a journey in spirituality would hardly seem to be the stuff of which page-turners are made, but former San Antonian Stephanie Saldana has done just that.
“The Bread of Angels: A Journey to Love and Faith,” is a candid account of Divinity scholar Saldana’s search for God and her place in life during a year’s stay in Syria on a Fulbright Fellowship. In a sometimes humorous, always honest and poetic style, she weaves for the reader a story as fascinating as the carpets in her Syrian friend Mohammed’s carpet shop, which tell him of the lands through which their refugee weavers have fled.
Saldana recognizes that she too is a refugee, fleeing from a family history that seems to carry a curse and from a romantic relationship with a Cambridge professor that has ended badly. Threads of these stories are woven into her new life as a resident in the ancient city of Damascus, living in what her colorful Armenian landlord, “The Baron,” ...
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By Carol Baass Sowa
Today's Catholic
SAN ANTONIO • Dan Mulhall, keynote speaker for the Catechetical Center’s Mid-Winter Gathering of Catechetical Leaders on February 25 at Blessed Sacrament parish, is known for breaking into song during workshops to catch listeners’ attention.
Opening with “How Can I Keep From Singing,” Mulhall, national catechetical advisor for RCL Benziger, used this song as the launching point for a look into the implications for ministry today, five years after the National Directory for Catechesis (NDC) which he helped develop while working for the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops from 1998 to 2007.
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