By Gary Topping– Among other things, the Advent and Christmas seasons are a time of new beginnings: a new liturgical year is followed a month later by a new calendar…
Posts published in December 2017
By George Pence– What do we owe those who would have us violate our sense of what’s right? Well, I think, quite a lot actually. Many years ago I converted…
By Michael Patrick O’Brien– John Lennon died on December 8, 1980. As a lifelong Beatles fan, I was very sad. His assassination eclipsed an event a few days before that…
By Father David Altman, O.C.S.O.– (This article, dated September 1987, is part of the public archives of the Huntsville History Library, which is open every Wednesday from 10 am to…