Mariette Baptiste, a young postulant at the Sisters of the Crucifixion convent, kneels to receive the Eucharist. Behind her, parishioners rush forward or shift...
Author - Nick Ripatrazone
“Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination,” writes Andrew Solomon, psychologist and author of Far From the Tree, a book recently adapted into...
Still Pilgrim by Angela Alaimo O’Donnell (Paraclete Press, 2017) The title Still Pilgrim is both a paradox and an invitation. As Christians we are called to be...
“Glory be to God for dappled things.” So begins “Pied Beauty,” a poem by 19th-century Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins. The poem praises God with the...
The Whale Chaser: A Novel By Tony Ardizzone (Chicago Review Press, 2015) The Whale Chaser begins and ends with a moment of transcendence: “The summer...
My wife and I run together at a local state park. “Together” is optimistic; I can no longer keep pace with her. We ran track together in college, but I am a...
