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CARDINAL SUENENS CENTER - Spring 2008 Book Series

Karen Long, Book Editor, Cleveland PLAIN DEALER  discusses
The Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong

Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Noon
D.J. Lombardo Student Center/Faculty Dining Room
This lecture is free to attend with the option of purchasing lunch.*

Cleveland Plain Dealer Book Editor Karen Long

A discussion centered on one of the most prolific popular religious writers of our era, Karen Armstrong, author of The Spiral Staircase.
                       
This lecture is part of John Carroll University’s Cardinal Suenens Center  Spring 2008 Book Series. 

Armstrong writes of her struggles as a nun and the agonizing decision to leave behind the convent; her disorienting return to the world she left behind; her frustrations as a graduate student, and her eventual and totally unanticipated success as a writer and commentator on religion.

Connie Brooks
Grasselli Library & Breen Learning Center

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition.  The university has some 3,100 plus undergraduates and just over 700 graduate students.  The U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 10 master’s-degree granting universities in the Midwest and first in average graduation rate. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland.  John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.

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