Ideas incarnate
A few weeks ago I began the gargantuan task of liberating my family’s books. They were jailed several years ago when we began traveling...
Argo: Hollywood gets the hostage treatment
R for some language and violent images
Warner Bros. Pictures
Directed by Ben Affleck
Cast: Ben Affleck, Alan Arkin, Bryan Cranston, Victor Garber, John Goodman
Screenplay: Chris Terrio
Ben...
Moments of Silence Amidst Feral Dogs
Last autumn I was in Greece. I spent three months living on the Peloponnese, retreating from the world as I knew it, wandering through...
Whom do you serve?
At the back of our parish there is a poster with two pictures on it. The first picture is of a computer/TV screen and...
True love
Each year between January and March, my family moves out into the wide world. Some of us go to college, others go to work,...
Felix Culpa
At the bank a few years back, my friendly teller and I were chatting in the way that sometimes happens when you are about the...
Fall trees
Our November 2012 cover artist, Anne-Marie Doyle, lives in Toronto, selling pumpkin pie and pumpkin spice coffee and finishing her last semester of English...
Sarah’s Helpful Holiday Hints
Do you hear that friends? The ring, ting, tinkling of sleigh bells accosting your ears in the grocery store or while you’re waiting at...
Truth and contradiction
Yesterday, my sister (who is no longer pregnant), my new nephew, my niece, my brother-in-law, and I went grocery shopping. This was my sister's...
My Sister’s Keeper: A Pro-Life Book Review
It all begins with a bruise: a little clover-shaped bruise. While bathing her two-year-old daughter, Sarah finds a trail of little brown bruises running...