Nazareth
April 2, 2021
That he still bore scars is what I’ve always thought so beautiful. It’s what’s intrigued me more than almost anything else all these years about the story so many celebrate at Easter all over the world, believers, half-believers, unbelievers too. The story of resurrection, the idea of it, the hope of it.
April 1, 2021
Brutal are the reminders of our creatureliness, our frail nakedness.
April 1, 2021
A democracy fighting for its life, a body politic trying to survive: that’s what we’re seeing in Myanmar.
January 23, 2022
Before each session of the Second Vatican Council, the bishops, abbots, cardinals, and theologians as well anyone else involved in the working of the great Council prayed together an ancient prayer, attributed supposedly to Saint Isidore of Seville from the seventh century.