Both climate change and bureaucratic incompetence are being blamed for the Venice floods. Venice has been sinking all my life, and I suppose it will eventually sink—unless of course Venetian and other Italian officials really get their act together. Read the...
I had a note from a priest who was feeling guilty about what he was saying to his flock. He read on a news forum the complaint of a Catholic who had spoken to a priest about these heartbroken times in the Church that the priest had said “Just try to be...
I don’t think April is the cruelest month. The cruelest month is most definitely November, especially in a northern country like Scotland when the sun starts setting at 4 PM. By the end of the month the sun will set at 3:45 PM. Then there’s the rain. And...
