May 2017

Readers respond to rules about the communion line, Catholic universities, the liberal reaction to political resentment, and airport security nightmares

"a February rain / has soaked the grass / and the hay bales / no one shooting but me"

"A ricochet, / she races, lingers, / hurries to be forgotten"

How my family was allowed to come to the United States, despite our Jewish origins

You either throw a teary-eyed party for Father Wonderful, or you tell Father Nightmare to beat it out the back door

Why Cardinal Bernardin deserves a fresh hearing

Mark Roche’s book is relevant to the discussion of the woes of Catholic higher education over the past 50 years, but it has ambitions beyond this discussion