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There is an enormous sense of excitement in the communities of
cancer research and cancer care as we move into the middle third of
the ?rst decade of the 21st century. For the ?rst time, there is a
true sense of c- ?dence that the tools provided by the human genome
project will enable cancer researchers to crack the code of genomic
abnormalities that allow tumor cells to live within the body and
provide highly speci?c, virtually non-toxic therapies for the
eradication, or at least ?rm control of human cancers. There is
also good reason to hope that these same lines of inquiry will
yield better tests for screening, early detection, and prev- tion
of progression beyond curability. While these developments provide
a legitimate basis for much op- mism, many patients will continue
to develop cancers and suffer from their debilitating effects, even
as research moves ahead. For these in- viduals, it is imperative
that the cancer ?eld make the best possible use of the tools
available to provide present day cancer patients with the best
chances for cure, effective palliation, or, at the very least,
relief from symptoms caused by acute intercurrent complications of
cancer. A modality that has emerged as a very useful approach to at
least some of these goals is tumor ablation by the use of physical
or physiochemical approache
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Poor Souls (Paperback)
John William McMullen
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Set in 1981 during the last week of summer vacation, Eugene Thomas
dares Lambert McChesney and his adolescent peers to walk across the
alleged haunted railroad bridge in the middle of the night. Reagan
was President and the threat of nuclear war and the proverbial
doomsday scenario hung over every American's head. Yet with
imminent death just a push of a button away, the thought of walking
across the alleged haunted railroad bridge in the middle of the
night seemed even more ominous to adolescent boys. Lambert
McChesney and his cohorts were embarking upon adolescence when
Reagan was king and God was in his heaven and all was well with the
world. So it seemed and so they believed.
Poor Souls is an account of American Catholic parish life, laced
with subtle, yet probing satire, as told through the eyes of
seminarian Martin Flanagan. Set in the Diocese of Covert at the
Parish of Our Lady of the Poor and Forgotten Souls in Purgatory,
Catholics and non-Catholics alike will delight in Hyacinth, the
ever-vigilant, long-time parish housekeeper; Pastor Emeritus,
Father Boniface; the irascible and irreverent Father Jack Ash; and
a host of other dysfunctional souls. Beyond the sanctuary, Poor
Souls reveals a great mix of sin and grace among broken believers.
"An unexpected revelation of life in the seminary and parish,
McMullen reveals the very human lives of Roman Catholic clergy
knowingly yet lovingly. McMullen's novel is so real it will make
you laugh and cry at the same time. Uproariously shrewd and
marvelously told." - Doug Chambers, The Joshua Decree "POOR SOULS
gives the reader a rollicking tale of seminarians and priests in
their service of the church. McMullen, writing as an insider,
masterfully strikes insightful chords of humor without resorting to
ridicule."- Clark Gabriel Field, The Celibate "Poor Souls is
unpretentious; it doesn't aim at the high drama of a Graham Greene
or the fetching mystical aura of Diary of a Country Priest. The
intention of the author is to 'highlight the ordinary, and indeed
the sinful, as being transformed by grace into something worthy of
God.' It employs the banality of everyday living to convey the
Catholic element without ever resorting to signs and wonders or,
worse, 'pious-speak'." - Leo Madigan, Literary Critic
The Miracle of Stalag 8A is a retelling of the fascinating story of
Olivier Messiaen's composition of his Quartet for the End of Time.
Set in France & Germany from 1939 to 1941, Messiaen served in
the French army, was captured at Verdun, and sent to Stalag 8A in
Gorlitz, Germany, where he composed the great work, The Quartet for
the End of Time. The enigmatic Messiaen, an avant-garde composer
and also a devout Catholic, along with Etienne Pasquier, an
agnostic cellist, Henri Akoka, a Jewish Trotskyite Clarinetist, and
Jean le Boulaire, an atheistic violinist, become the famous quartet
of Stalag 8A. These four very different men collaborated to create
musical history in the most unlikely of places. Messiaen's Quartet,
composed in a Stalag, transforms man's inhumanity to man with hope.
Yet to the avant-garde, he was too traditional and too religious;
to the traditionalists and religious, he was too avant-garde. As a
result he will always stand somewhere outside of Time. The first
performance of the Quartet for the End of Time at Stalag 8A in
January 1941 has become, in the words of Paul Griffiths, "one of
the great stories of twentieth-century music." - From the Publisher
The Miracle of Stalag 8A is a retelling of the fascinating story of
Olivier Messiaen's composition of his Quartet for the End of Time.
Set in France & Germany from 1939 to 1941, Messiaen served in
the French army, was captured at Verdun, and sent to Stalag 8A in
Gorlitz, Germany, where he composed the great work, The Quartet for
the End of Time. The enigmatic Messiaen, an avant-garde composer
and also a devout Catholic, along with Etienne Pasquier, an
agnostic cellist, Henri Akoka, a Jewish Trotskyite Clarinetist, and
Jean le Boulaire, an atheistic violinist, become the famous quartet
of Stalag 8A. These four very different men collaborated to create
musical history in the most unlikely of places. Messiaen's Quartet,
composed in a Stalag, transforms man's inhumanity to man with hope.
Yet to the avant-garde, he was too traditional and too religious;
to the traditionalists and religious, he was too avant-garde. As a
result he will always stand somewhere outside of Time. The first
performance of the Quartet for the End of Time at Stalag 8A in
January 1941 has become, in the words of Paul Griffiths, "one of
the great stories of twentieth-century music."
From the forgotten history of 1830s Indiana, John William McMullen
unearths the true story of Benjamin Petit, a French Attorney turned
missionary priest, and his mission to the Potawatomi People in the
Diocese of Vincennes, Indiana. Under the urging of the saintly
Bishop Simon Brut, Petit joined the northern Indiana Potawatomi
tribes in 1837, a year before their forced removal west. McMullen
retells the incredible journey of Petit who traveled with the
Potawatomi People and became part of their history. "The
deportation of Chief Menominee and his tribe of Potawatomi Indians
from their reservation at Twin Lakes in Marshall County, in
September, 1838, is one of the darkest pages in the history of
Indiana. The farther in time we get away from this event the
clearer this will appear and the more interest will be attached to
the route which is consecrated by the blood of that helpless people
at the hands of a civilized and Christian state: The Potawatomi
Trail. "Of all the names connected with this crime, there is one,
Father Benjamin Petit, the Christian martyr, which stands like a
star in the firmament, growing brighter and it will shine on
through for ages to come." - Benjamin Stuart, Indiana journalist,
early 20th century "For American Indians the scars of injustice
inflicted upon them in the past are deep, painful, and, tragically,
are inherited from one generation to the next. Those injustices
have become ghosts in the cultural memory of a people crying out
for justice. We must fully disclose the past in order to deal with
the many years and generations of unresolved grief and distrust."
-Thomas Hamilton, member of Citizen Potawatomi Nation. John William
McMullen resides in Evansville, Indiana with his wife and children
There is an enormous sense of excitement in the communities of
cancer research and cancer care as we move into the middle third of
the ?rst decade of the 21st century. For the ?rst time, there is a
true sense of c- ?dence that the tools provided by the human genome
project will enable cancer researchers to crack the code of genomic
abnormalities that allow tumor cells to live within the body and
provide highly speci?c, virtually non-toxic therapies for the
eradication, or at least ?rm control of human cancers. There is
also good reason to hope that these same lines of inquiry will
yield better tests for screening, early detection, and prev- tion
of progression beyond curability. While these developments provide
a legitimate basis for much op- mism, many patients will continue
to develop cancers and suffer from their debilitating effects, even
as research moves ahead. For these in- viduals, it is imperative
that the cancer ?eld make the best possible use of the tools
available to provide present day cancer patients with the best
chances for cure, effective palliation, or, at the very least,
relief from symptoms caused by acute intercurrent complications of
cancer. A modality that has emerged as a very useful approach to at
least some of these goals is tumor ablation by the use of physical
or physiochemical approache
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