On our last day in Danang, Fr George shared a breakfast table with Dawn Chung — a young Vietnamese girl who had migrated to America and was now back on a visit. She told him that she was one of the boat people who had landed in Pulau Bidong as a child and later stayed at the ...
None were permitted to travel overseas to study.Today, his 19th-century cathedral is packed with worshippers on Sundays, and Catholic seminaries are expanding. New churches are mushrooming in this corner of northern Vietnam where Catholicism has sunk deep roots. Fr. Phuc is amazed at the rapid...
I was now twenty years old and had completed my second year of college. I had feared the Vietnam draft because I heard they were now drafting college students into the military, but now that I was twenty, I felt secure that I need not fear the lottery any longer. But then, I receive...
Shooting Vietkong children on behalf of the Catholic president of South Vietnam Working in a factory that produces munitions that kill children, or industrial pollution that causes fatal birth defects. Too late; you looked. Get your ass over to the confessional booth, sinner.The...