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Rabbi A. James Rudin has spent much of his life helping to develop respect and understanding among faiths. On Sunday, he will be the third American rabbi bestowed with the Papal Knighthood of the Order of St. Gregory the Great.
Rabbi A. James Rudin, co-founder of Saint Leo University’s Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies, to receive Papal Knighthood. The Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston Mark O’Connell will conduct the investiture ceremony on behalf of Pope Francis on November 20 at the university's campus, north of Tampa.
In “How the Irish Saved Civilization," Thomas Cahill argued that as the Continent descended into darkness and anarchy after the last Western Roman emperor was deposed in 476, Ireland's isolation became its advantage: Irish monks preserved texts, maintained a literary culture and fostered a Christianity that later seeded the revival of the Roman Catholic Church in Western Europe.