A quarterly journal of ideas, art, and faith
Arthur Powers
SELECTED BY KATY CARL, EDITOR IN CHIEF
(Rio de Janeiro — 1968 / Paris — 1973)
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Carla Alves was twenty-three when she came from Rio de Janeiro to Paris: a woman of medium height, with dark blonde hair, a fresh white complexion, and thoughtful hazel eyes. At twenty-three she was an optimist by nature, raised in a home filled with love, and—despite all that had happened—tending deep inside to hope for the best, to trust people. But she was wary.
Matthew Lickona
SELECTED BY BERNARDO APARICIO GARCÍA, PRESIDENT
It was time to test the meat.
Father Dunleavy squeezed his left hand into a fist, and, with the tip of his right index finger, pressed down on the bulging swath of flesh that stretched between the knuckles of his clenched thumb and forefinger. He noted the bounce of fingertip off skin, something like a drumstick repelled by the tautness of the drumhead. Keeping his fingers curled, he relaxed the muscles of his hand and pressed again. He still found tension there at the surface, but it was underlaid with softness—a jellified center. Father Dunleavy smiled. That’s it. [Read more...]
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
A Reading from the Gospel According to Higher Education
Wine Making to Marion Williams Singing
of the Imagination
Light from the East: The Orientation of
Christian Worship in Light of Modern
Scholarship
Sanctification: A Comedy of Error
