Monthly Archives: April 2016

Dan Berrigan died today; my thanks to Jim Forest for letting us know about this. A couple of years ago, I wrote a blogpost about him, which I am resending now in tribute to a magnificent man and a fully-lived … Continue reading →

“Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus!” (“Julius Caesar” I.ii.129). Yes, he doth. Four hundred years after his death his plays present the human condition to us all over the world. Perhaps my most memorable memory … Continue reading →

Yes, I’ve decided to join Pope Francis’s church. I don’t mean by that that I am going to become a Roman Catholic. I mean I am identifying with the millions–perhaps billions–of people who are astonished and gratified at how he … Continue reading →