Useful information. Preachers evangelize in that sense only . Not at all. With us today is a literary scholar and teacher who will discuss with us how makers of art and literature, fiction, film, poultry, or bringing us good news and revealing to us truths that can help us live wisely and well if that is we know how to read their books and watch their films. How do we watch and read even the products of our secular culture so as to grow and wisdom and grace. Stay with us as we talk with doctor margaret about fiction, film, and faith around us and the depths of rich human insight that can be found in the best of the art. Welcome to, mosaic me our guest dr. Martin. Margaret. You are a teacher, a professor at the st. Patricks seminary. You have taught also at university dallas. You have an ma in systematic theology, and a doctoral degree from University Freiburg in theology. You are a learned scholar and an experienced teacher and writer. What do you want to talk about today in evangeliza
Working for pm we should talk a little but i will talk about that. The great investigative journalist i have stone remains the template for what journalism should be he was a fearless opponent of mccarthyism and the scourge of official liars as d. D. Gotten planned puts it in his biography of stone he did what few in his profession could he always thought for himself couldnt plan argues that the key to stones achievements throughout his singular career not just in the celebrated eye of stones weekly lay in the forests and passion of his political commitments he would become one of the best known journalists in the country and then because of the ferocity of his integrity and refusal to be cowed by the hysteria and witch hunts over communism a pariah he was placed under daily surveillance his passport was not renewed and he was blacklisted even the nation. Agonising would not give him a job at the age of 44. 00 he wrote that is total marginalisation made him feel like a ghost his career
Stones weekly lay in the force and passion of his political commitments he would become one of the best known journalists in the country and then because of the ferocity of his integrity and refusal to be cowed by the hysteria and witch hunts over communism a pariah he was placed under daily surveillance his passport was not renewed and he was blacklisted even the nation magazine would not give him a job at the age of 44. 00 he wrote that is total marginalisation made him feel like a ghost his career is a poignant reminder that moral autonomy and independence traits stone had in abundance comes with a price that is a primer on what constitutes great reporting in an age when celebrity gossip and trivia are passed off as news joining me in the studio to discuss i. F. Stone and his legacy is. Gotten planned author of american radical the life and times of stone 1st of all this is a brilliant biography you produced a masterpiece and if people havent read it they need to buy it its a stunni
His legacy is d. D. Gotten plan author of american radical the life and times of stone 1st of all this is a brilliant biography you produced a masterpiece and if people havent read it they need to buy it its a stunning and its a little tough now its so much more than the life of stone well it says something about the culture the important about the culture about journalism about the moral life and its its beautifully written but set us up who was i have stuff so i have stone was the son of jewish immigrants hill adelphia he was born in philadelphia a 97 in sort of tenement neighborhood but importantly grew up in haddonfield their jersey so a rural town where like a lot of jewish immigrants his parents kept the shop all over him. There are all towns where theres one jewish family and they kept the shop and his parents were that family in haddonfield new jersey so that meant that he didnt grow up you know in an urban setting he didnt grow up in the Lower East Side he grew up with a kind
Summit for two thousand and seventeen European Council president. Is warning them to prepare for a bruising battle plus. Britain holds a Memorial Service at st pauls cathedral for the victims of one of the countrys worst peacetime tragedies at least seventy people were killed in the Grenfell Tower fire in Central London six months ago. Its good to have you with us we begin with a fatal accident in the south of france where a train has collided with a school bus or it happened near the spanish border in the interior Ministry Says at least four teenagers were killed after the train hit the bus splitting it into. Crash occurred in the village of milan some fifteen kilometers west of pipping on another seven people were seriously injured the french Prime Minister is traveling to the crash site at this hour. We want to go now to correspondent on elisa betts mortagne she joins us from paris on these vets do we know anything yet about how this accident happened. We know that the bus was a sta