What happens to our consciousness after we die? What some people call a soul, they believe, will head off for heaven, the afterlife, Elysian fields, nirvana, or another round of…
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RELIGION & METAPHYSICS
I have poked some fun at Da Vinci’s Last Supper over the years, depicting it like a scene from Barry Levinson’s 1983 film, Diner, in which a bunch of guys…
“The new appointee was known to have behaved disgracefully with pupils since 1629, some fifteen years earlier. He repeatedly betrayed the trust laid on him as a priest and a…
There is a passage that alone is worth the price of this book, at least for me. Anyone who has read the pages of Dragon City Journal is aware of the contempt…
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both Robert Frost, “The Road Not Taken” (1915) Life is nothing if not a succession of choices.…
“Succor us out of the city.” (2 Samuel 18:3) I my new novel (to be unabashedly promotional) the protagonist muses that “You can love a city, but don’t expect it to love…
When I was in my Jesuit high school were taught to put then letters AMDG on the top of our papers and tests. The letters were for the Latin motto…
Many years ago I was in Hall 15, The Leonardo Room of the renowned Uffizi Gallery in Florence. At one end of this particular room was, on an easel and…
I got a phone call the other day from a guy who knew my friend Bob. I hadn’t seen Bob for decades. He was a former professor of mine when…
There is no way of finding out, but I have the suspicion that the name of God, and members of his family, is invoked more in oaths and curses than…