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Richard Rodriguez

Richard Rodriguez is a contributing editor at New America Media in San Francisco and a regular contributor to The News Hour on PBS. He writes regularly for several newspapers and magazines, both in the United States and in England. He has also written an autobiographical trilogy on class, ethnicity and race: Hunger of Memory (1982) Days of Obligation: An Argument With My Mexican Father, (1992) and Brown: The Last Discovery of America (2002). He is currently working on a book concerned with the ecology of the desert and monotheism.

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  • The Mystery of Mother Teresa

    September 3, 2007

    That a woman perceived of possessing great personal holiness turns out to be a person who suffered doubt in her experience with God deepens her mystery, rather than lessens it.

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