SS. Peter and Paul 2018

Feature

Feasts of Doubt or Feasts of Faith?: Dana Gioia’s “All Souls’” and “Pentecost” 
Joshua Hren

Fiction

The Drought, 1983 
Christi Nogle

Trapped 
Caroline Valencia-Dalisay

The Seconds After Living Wounds 
Samuel Cole

Nonfiction

Say a Little Prayer 
Nina Fosati

The Priest as Enchanter 
Allan Hawkins

On Original Sin and The Picture of Dorian Gray 
James Valvis

Book Reviews

The Sere, the Yellow Leaf: Rescuing Macbeth from Harold Bloom 
review by J.B. Toner

Under Cosmopolitanism and Outside: A Review of Daniel Rattelle’s The Sleeping House
by Joshua Hren

Dracula and Dominican Vampire Slayers: A Bloody Habit by Eleanor Bourg Nicholson
review by Karen Ullo

The Flame Imperishable by Jonathan S. Macintosh review by Jane Clark Scharl

Poetry

Speculum Amoris Christi 
Lance Le Grys

Francis before the Seraph 
Lance Le Grys

A Sonnet Written in Age 
Jeffrey Essmann

Frau Frey’s Observations 
Laura M. Fabrycky

Jonah Boards a Ship 
Loren Moreno

Mary Comes Down 
Jeannine Pitas

Macondo 
Jeannine Pitas

Ruah 
Jeanne Murray Walker

Shoes 
Jeanne Murray Walker

Philadelphia: Walking to Work on the First Day of Spring
Jeanne Murray Walker

Comfort Items 
Cameron Morse

The Best and Happiest Moments 
Cameron Morse

The Cave 
Cameron Morse

Song of Salome 
Joseph McBirnie

Jacob’s Ladder 
Timothy Chapman

Visual Art

Bernadette Carstensen is a Catholic illustrator working in traditional mediums. She aspires to show the humanity and also the profound holiness of her subjects. Previously commissioned by the Eastern Province of Dominicans, the Diocese of Columbus, various parishes and authors, she works from her home in California where she lives with her husband and two children.