"I would say," says Edward Short, who chose the poems in the new collection The Saint Mary's Book of Christian Verse, "beyond technical smartness and insight and a respect for mystery, a good Christian poem must have a certain probity, a certain accountability. And a certain element of surprise."
I don't know a command of Jesus that seems to have been so universally disobeyed as the one we heard recently in a Sunday gospel, "when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind." (Lk 14:13)
"Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, / Who never to himself hath said, / This is my own, my native land!" - Sir Walter Scott
One reason—perhaps the only reason—for optimism occasioned by the recent struggle for leadership of the Conservative Party in Britain is the remarkable ethnic diversity of the candidates and at the same time the almost non-existent part it played in the choice between them.
Welcome, everyone, to Word of the Week! And as is fitting for this day, and for our inaugural entry, today's word is LIBERTY.
I noticed a very pretty girl sitting not far from me on a bus ride of about 45 minutes last week.
No matter where you live in Ukraine, you can't escape the war.
From Spiritual Struggle to Marian Surrender
