It was smaller than the first, and its name was 262505-9038. With a lesser number than its neighbor, it always felt a little inferior. When its tree cover was removed, it became not an asphalt ocean but a patch of grass. Shortened regularly, this was not a pasture for animals but for...
- All these questions are purely academic, Russell oracled out of his shadow. I mean, whether Hamlet is Shakespeare or James I or Essex. Clergymen's discussions of the historicity of Jesus." (U9.43) "Art has to reveal to us ideas, formless spiritual essences. The supreme question about...
As Singapore and its Catholic community were preparing to welcome Pope Francis, who arrives here in a matter of days, I found myself halfway across the world in Buenos Aires. The Argentine capital, which was of course the home city of the first Latin American Pope before his election in M...
1840, “Our loss is very great. He was so faithful and kind – always ready to relieve us of every care, so that we might give ourselves to our appropriate missionary work – increasingly so to the last. He died as a faithful Christian missionary dies – happy to die in the field ...
claimed lays upon a pagan site and boasted a shrine within. The relics of St Laurence were laid in 666AD in a stone altar within giving the Saxon church a religious focus. This was apparently lost at the Reformation but local tradition records that it was buried somewhere in the churchyard...
Hoping: That Jesus Christ Superstar will be just as good as it was the first time we saw it in the early/mid 1970s (with Marcia Hines, Jon English, and Trevor White). Important: Appreciating the good things is important. Particularly when the good things are simple things like cooking po...
Their bosom pals, the Chinese, did but they could not have done much to help since they themselves had a pitiful air force consisting of hand-me-down Yak1s, Mig-2s&3s and assorted other World War II planes that the Soviets had been about to mothball. Besides, China was itself a ...
My graphic interpretation of the 1916 poem “Il porto sepolto” (“The Buried Port”) by the great Italian poet Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970). This comic originally appeared in the third issue of “Junior Poetry Magazine,” an Italian magazine of poetry for young people. La mia “fumettizz...
very serious. They had not bothered to tell anyone else what they intended or where they were headed or when they expected to be back. Trust me, the next day we had a true “come to Jesus” meeting where the rules I thought I had spelled out earlier, were reinforced a bit more clear...
Where St. Petersburg Originated Although yesterday afternoon was cloudy, it was still good weather. Now on our third and last day, we have drizzling rain and a sky so dark it feels like twilight. We identify with a favorite St. Petersburg saying about summer weather: “Nine months of expect...