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The death yesterday in a Russian penal colony of Alexei Navalny might naturally bring to mind the story of Walter Ciszek, S.J., the famed American Jesuit who spent 23 years in Soviet captivity. ....
John Levko, S.J., of the University of Scranton, studied at the U.S. Military Academy, Lehigh University, Fordham University, Gregorian University and the Pontifical Oriental Institute, resulting in seven degrees, including two doctorates. He met Walter Ciszek, S.J., in 1964 and began a friendship that lasted until Father Ciszek’s death 20 years later. Father Levko served as the first postulator for Father Ciszek’s cause for canonization. ....
In Monday’s election, residents of a town that was once a stronghold of the independence movement are expected to back the province’s popular premier, who has embraced a nationalism based on French Québécois identity. ....