As a society we are losing our will to live. Perhaps we do not even know how to live anymore. Rather, we abandon ourselves to an insatiable pursuit of comfort. And then, to compound our madness, we burden our youth …
Category: Fiction
Book Review: The Woman in the Trees: A Novel About America’s First Approved Marian Apparition
The Woman in the Trees: A novel about America’s first approved Marian apparition Theoni Bell (https://theonibell.com/) Independently Published 237 pages $6.99 Kindle; $15.99 Paperback Publisher’s Description: “Set within the expanses of the American frontier, The Woman in the Trees follows …
A Brief Tale of ‘Eucharistic Inhospitality’
We hear a lot nowadays about “Eucharistic inhospitality,” a phrase generally abused, but we would do well to reflect on a previous and far more damaging exclusion from the table that has cast a long and still lengthening shadow over …
How about a Synod for the ‘Indigenous Peoples’ of Britain?
Editor’s note: What you are about to read is — or should be — an obvious fiction, imagining what the next Vatican synod on regional indigenous peoples might propose. And yet, with a passage in the Amazonian synod working document …
Sealed With Blood: A Letter From a Father to His Beloved Son
Editor’s note: the following is a work of speculative fiction. It was originally published in the April, 2002 issue of New Oxford Review. It has been reprinted with permission. Cite de Dio The Feast of The Holy Innocents, A.D. 2032 …