God’s Pursuit of Fr. Walter Ciszek, and Each of Us
Fr. Walter Ciszek was conscious that every person we encounter, every suffering we endure, and every situation we find ourselves is an opportunity God uses to pursue us.
Emails to Malcolm
In the spirit of C.S. Lewis, Kevin O'Brien emails his friend Malcolm for the holidays, and in the exchange he reveals Malcolm's spiritual, intellectual, and political ambiguity.
The Slavophils
Slavophils generally represented the ‘small’ landowner class, standing between a French- and German-speaking, Westernised, absentee-landlord ‘high society’ on the one hand, and a vast, devotedly-Orthodox, Russian-speaking class of unfree or semi-free serfs and peasants on the other.
The Fall of the Wall
The world is now celebrating the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. But in fact, the Wall did not fall on that date.