The Prayerful Mystic; or the Non-Stop Worker
THE PRAYERFUL MYSTIC; OR THE NON-STOP WORKER BOTH/AND Few could pin Fr. Al down. At the tortuous moments just prior to his death from Lou Gehrig’s Disease, he belted out whispered commands to those at his bedside: Please remind the Sisters that they must pray three...
The Scale and Hierarchy of Warriorhood
With the expanding war, I’ve been thinking about the detonation of bombs into childhoods. In the deep interior of Mexico last week at Villa de los Niños in Guadalajara, Mexico, I walked paths and found myself falling into new friendships with three American...
The Flesh God Puts on Ghosts
The sister saw the boy approaching like a ghost emerging from a parched wilderness. He looked to be 11 or 12; his eyes were enormous and glazed over. The sister from the Sisters of Mary community knew these were the hunger eyes of the East African plains. When she...
Fr. Aloysius Schwartz and St. Therese of Lisieux
“THANK YOU LORD, I NEEDED THAT” As the Feast Day of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus approaches, it is good to recall how the Church Doctor and Carmelite nun broke like teams of wild stallions into Venerable Aloysius Schwartz’s (founder of World Villages for Children)...