David Loxterkamp To the Bone
Created for Joy A Christian View of Suffering Sidney Callahan Crossroad, $19.95, 256 pp. S idney Callahan begins her fifth book with these celebrated...
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Hope What the Doctor Ordered ia David Loxterhamp W e circled him with our impotent answers, our guarded gestures of help. Circled while the cancer waged its all.out assault, stripping...
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A Mutual Presence 'What Good Is It if the Bread Is Changed & We Are Not?' David Loxterhamp A s Roman Catholics, we believe in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The bread and wine...
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THE ROAD TO CO M POSTELA A doctor takes stock David Loxterkamp eneath the high altar of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, in the wind-worn province of Galicia, Spain, lies a silver...
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THE LAST WORD JUST A FLOOR ABOVE David Loxterkamp Dust a floor above, a patient lies angled across the clean and freshly turned sheets. Her hollowed cheeks are glazed in sweat. Her pursed panting...
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IN GOVERNMENT WE TRUST W. Shepherdson Abell The recent presidential campaign may have left some doubt as to where George W. Bush and Al Gore really stood on "big government." There is no...
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'DON'T LOOK BACK' A mother's farewell David Loxterkamp O bells ring for the ringing! The beginning and the end of the ringing! Ring, ring, ring, ring! William Carlos Williams, "The Catholic...
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IN THE MIDST OF DEATH, WE ARE IN LIFE There at Greg's side David Loxterkamp It was toward the close of Mass on the Second Sunday of Lent. Twenty screeching voices and three clanging guitars were...
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