In this day and age, when people who walk in darkness see a great light, they run away fearing for their lives. These days, when people who walk in darkness see it, they rush the stage or affix themselves to the screen and offer themselves to idols. Today, when people who walk in darkness see…
I am like the Rock in Horeb, an island in the gray sea of the wasteland of Sin; unmoving, unhidden, stubborn to the stars. Strike me, break me open at the dry fractures where spiders spin lace around dry husks, and the whirling grain of sand births no pearl. Let life flow from the fissures,…
I walked up the little hill with the grass washed away by the gray rain and the brown mud under the threatening sky that followed the steps of my journey, to the crooked, tangled grove at its crown, three trees I had seen from the path in the valley, bare and sere despite the torrents…
If a priest never loses his identity nor his power to celebrate the Mass, can he after being laicized continue to celebrate the Mass in a private manner, that is, by himself? There is no ministry there per se that is implied, is there? The rescript for laicization is generally quite direct in laying out…
There is a magnolia tree, old and sheltering, growing in a backyard in the middle of the Bronx. From the center of a concrete patio, its gray-white trunk and branches twist with emerald leaves into a pale blue sky. In the Spring, its pink and white blossoms sweeten the air; in Autumn a golden carpet…
