In the Country
A PLACE FULL OF GRACE
“Where are your sheep, Father?” Jay asks as he throws another rock on the pile behind the barn.
“They got mad and left,” I respond as I try with a hoe to pry loose a slab of cement. “They got tired of this rocky manure yard and decided to go to the city. I think they’re headed for Chicago.”
“Father, priests aren’t supposed to lie.”
Jay is 10 years of age and old enough to provide some direction to misguided adults.
“I’m just telling you what they had on their minds. You don’t see them around anywhere, do you?”
“So where are they?”
You May Also Enjoy
In one way or another, through greed and aggressive manipulations and callousness and self-serving rationalizations, we shun our obligations to others.
Into the Void... Combating Cultural Vandalism: The Scottish Example
Reviews of A Nation Under Lawyers... The Philosopher and the Provocateur. The Correspondence of Jacques Maritain and Saul Alinsky Lead, Kindly Light: My Journey to Rome... The Oxford Companion to the Bible... The Catholics of Harvard Square... How to Read the Apocalypse... Reckoning with Apocalypse: Terminal Politics and Christian Hope... Catholic Schools and the Common Good... Devoutly I Adore Thee: The Prayers and Hymns of St. Thomas Aquinas... Chapters into Verse: Poetry in English Inspired by the Bible... Theology and Sanity...