People are people
Did anyone watch the Boston bombing news with great interest? Were you glued to updates and bulletins, carefully checking the suspectsâ faces and watching...
Christ and the Incorruptibles
âI am the Resurrection and the Life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in...
Necessary Magic
Several years ago, when I was working on a community theatre project, I overheard two little girls having a conversation about wishes. They were...
Christmas reflections
House of Bread. Bethlehem. The place where He was born. It may not have been in a stable and it was likely not in...
Symptoms of disunity
About five years ago, my dad began working for a company that repairs railroad tracks. His job requires him to be away from home...
Flannery’s Faithful Fiction
Speed, not death, is the great leveller today. Travellers dash around the globe destroying by their visits the very sites and cultures they have...
Pagan Idolatry and Catholic Fortitude
A writer must at times take back, or at least re-form, opinions once vaguely and lightly and perhaps too hastily held. Even the great...
Virtue, Vice and Everything Nice? Blessed Dina Belanger
Father Callamâs take on Christâs declaration that it is what comes from within a man making him unclean, all those unbridled and disordered passions...
A Vote for Life
The referendum vote in Ireland today, on the ârightâ to abortion, is a turning point in our culture, for the Catholic nation symbolizes something...
The long distance relationship
In August of 2011, I was having a long, deep, interesting conversationâthe type women often doâabout my deal breakers for a dating relationship. No...
