VATICAN CITY – The Vatican Business Conglomerate is now on the defensive in regards to the document leaks, concerning the Vatican Bank’s offshore Cayman Islands banking division. Quite recently, like clockwork online religious publications on the internet, National Catholic Reporter has a story titled Why the ‘Vatican Bank’ doesn’t exist, or in Catholic Culture has a [...]
This Conan Doyle story has always fascinated me. Hound of the Baskervilles, Sign of the four, Lady on the bicycle and others have been done many times. Yet this to my knowledge has only been done once, in all the Sherlock Holmes films and TV series. The story centres around a body found impaled to [...]
On so many occasions we have attempted to put into words, the wretched torture love has inflicted upon the heart, and even the depths of many souls. Is it perhaps the utterances that are of feeling complete devastation, hopelessness and angst of the human spirit are ones not meant to be expressed? If we could [...]
It’s like you have been walking, moving. It seems like in a maze of rooms, getting through passages, doors. You don’t see any windows. You don’t know whether it is darkness or light that surrounds you. It sometimes seems like you are walking in a road, a strip road, a path but with doors. You [...]
Things sure have changed since I was a kid. Nowadays they buckle up for safety and sit in the back seat in a special booster chair complete with belly pad, plush seat cover, head pillow and three position crotch strap. I remember standing up on the front seat of our Ford Fairlane, next to my [...]
People drove by oblivious to the fact that this was the last time they would see me. They were wrapped up in their own happy existence unaware of the hurtful words that caused me such pain. The crossing guard walked out in the street with her stop sign held high and motioned me to cross. [...]
I struggle with the waist straps of my backpack, tightening them over my soaked T-shirt. The pack weighs a third of my weight, making my knees buckle. The band of my shorts ruckles uncomfortably against my skin. “The wet season has come early. We’d better get going, the rivers will be rising.” Our Dutch guide, [...]
Now I don’t want to go off on a rant here, but from the Facebook user that updates their status to “I’m typing on Facebook”, to the Twitter user that follows his stalkers so they can cut down on looking into the mirror, to the YouTube user that scheduled a colonoscopy because they needed new [...]
Excerpt from Don’t Just Sit There, Do Something! - Grief’s Wake Up Call by Gabriel Constans. In the fall of ninety-four, Reggie and Maggie Green were on holiday in Italy, driving peacefully through Messina with their children Nicholas and Eleanor (seven and four years old) sleeping soundly in the back seat. Out of the dark night [...]
I wanna see an episode of Celebrity Bear Jeopardy because I wanna see how smart the avg bear is. What is Yogi really bragging about? I haven’t seen a think tank of bears at MIT or a group of astrophysicist bears at the Houston Headquarters of NASA or being certified by the AMA to conduct [...]
