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The surprising history of the patron saint of Cuba

Tuesday, November 8th, 2016

A minor miracle occurred on a dark train platform in a provincial Cuban town in 1981. I had been a Cuban-American exile for two decades, and had managed to wrangle a visa to visit my sick mother. After seeing her, I had traveled to the train station with some unfinished business. The middle-aged woman in Read more

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Sinead O’Connor says Magdalene laundry affected her

Friday, February 15th, 2013

Irish singer Sinead O’Connor, who caused international controversy when she tore up a photo of Pope John Paul II on live television, has revealed that 18 months in one of the Magdalene laundries as a child affected her for life. O’Connor, now 46, said she was sent to the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity Read more

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