A ninety year old couple sat on their front porch one night. The old man was overcome with the romantic atmosphere of the evening and he said to his wife, who was hard of hearing, “I’m proud of you.” “Huh?” she said. “I’m tired of you too.” More often than not the more familiar we […]

Tomorrow, December 10th, is the anniversary of the death of Thomas Merton in 1968, one of the most popular spiritual writers of the 20th century. Merton was originally raised in France, and for a short time in England, where he was baptized as an Anglican, before moving to Long Island. Eventually he became a member […]