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By Massimo  Faggioli, It is not a coincidence that a prominent U.S. Jesuit, the Rev. Leo J. O’Donovan, former president of Georgetown University, will deliver the invocation at the inauguration of President Joseph R. Biden Jr., the second Catholic president in the history of the United States. In the past few years, particularly during the pontificate of Pope Francis, the Society of Jesus has been the most important and visible reserve of intellectual and spiritual power for global Catholicism. But it can be seen also as a déjà vu moment in American presidential history. John F. Kennedy,...

FILE - This Sept. 13, 2011, file photo shows British author John Le Carré at the U.K. film premiere of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy," in London. John le Carré, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died. He was 89, Le Carré’s literary agency, Curtis Brown, said Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020, that he died in Cornwall, in southwest England, on Saturday. (AP Photo/Sang Tan, File) Among the many fans of British novelist John le Carré, who died on Dec. 12 at the age of 89, w...