Catholic Lit for Lent: Mauriac’s ‘Vipers’ Tangle’
Posted March 4th, 2019
Within a story of dysfunctional family relationships, Mauriac illustrates a cold soul, who can still be warmed by grace that comes from those who love purely. [Read More...]
‘That’s Divisive!’ Is Not an Argument
Posted February 9th, 2018
Is something wrong or false or evil just because it causes division? [Read More...]
Connolly’s Noonday Devil: Fiction as Spiritual Reading
Posted June 22nd, 2017
Myles Connolly has written a novel-length portrait of the towering strength of a soul whose weakness, in the world’s eyes, is charity. [Read More...]
Room 707: The Last Time I Saw My Father
Posted June 15th, 2017
In advance of Father’s Day, a poem. [Read More...]
Alfa Romeo’s Promise of Absolute Freedom
Posted February 9th, 2017
It invites us to consider, and I hope reconsider, what we were taught about being human. [Read More...]
Dispatch: Easy to Go Home, Hard to Leave Friends
Posted August 8th, 2016
Benedictine College Great Books professor Edward Mulholland on departing the refugee camp that changed him. [Read More...]
Dispatch: All Hail Greece, Land of Exiles
Posted August 5th, 2016
Greece is on the edge in more ways than one, and yet here the refugees come … [Read More...]
Dispatch: Leaving What Was Never Home
Posted August 2nd, 2016
He lost his home. Did he lose the ability to know what home is? [Read More...]