Judy Valente
Judy Valente is an author at Religion News Service.
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40 years later, Merton’s legacy looms large
By Judy Valente — November 27, 2008
c. 2008 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly TRAPPIST, Ky. _ Around the country for the next few weeks, many Roman Catholics will remember and honor the life of Trappist monk Thomas Merton, who died 40 years ago on Dec. 10, 1968, in a freak electrocution accident. Merton, who influenced generations of believers with both his monastic […]
Small-town cop tracks struggle in spiritual journal
By Judy Valente — July 29, 2008
c. 2008 Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly LEXINGTON, Ill. _ Spencer Johansen has been the popular police chief of this rural Illinois town (population 1,900) for 18 years and always thought he’d retire here as the police chief. But then some seemingly inexplicable things started happening. “I missed a couple of court dates, nothing major, they […]
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