Essay
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.
October 29, 2020
“Few of the documents,” writes the historian John O’Malley, “bumped along such a rough road as Nostra Aetate.”[1] It’s a remarkable story—tense and dramatic—the story behind this very brief Declaration of the Second Vatican Council. It all began in September 1960 when Saint Pope John XXIII asked Augustin Cardinal Bea, a German Jesuit biblical scholar and […]