A BAD PEACE
Tacitus wrote that "a bad peace is worse than war," something that should be guiding US policy as regards the Ukrainian conflict. While...
A COVID CHRISTMAS
A short story by Kenneth T. Zemsky:
An old man befriends a peculiar little girl, who teaches him that in times of distress miracles happen.
ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD INSIDE
I. I have always believed in angels. The universe is so vast, and God must be incredibly busy. So I figure He deputizes the angels to...
CHRISTMAS HOMECOMING
On the first day of my Christmas gift to you… Brett remembered with total clarity the moment the world came to an end. It was when that...
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT
Preface I hope, dear reader, that you, along with our protagonist, will find the spirit in this short story of the season with hardly a...
A Simple Rx for Catholic Schools
Much has been written about the crisis in parochial school education, what with declining enrollment, school closures and burgeoning...
Where Have You Gone, Father Dunn?
We’ve all had them. That wonderful Bing Crosby-esque local parish priest who inspired us to be more than the sum of our physical parts,...
The Canine Formerly Known as Prince (absolutely true story)
One summer during college, in what now seems like the Pleistocene Era, I worked for the Postal Service. This is before the USPS had...
Can We Pry?
Angels on the hiking trail? Last week my wife and I were in upstate New York enjoying the fall foliage. On one of our morning hikes we...
GOD BLESS BUD COLLYER
I love old movies. It’s A Wonderful Life, Going My Way, the Marx Brothers. Old shows, from the golden age of television, also have a...
