Imag-ine

Throughout history, human beings have been willing to sacrifice the lives of human beings, made in the image of God, for the sake of a flag, an emblem, a symbol, a piece of earth, a form of ideology, even a familiar way of doing things. Since human beings are created...

Faith in the Future …

According to a BBC news report two Japanese government ministers and dozens of lawmakers recently visited the Yasukuni shrine on the anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II. The shrine is a testimony to Japan’s past militarism under a...

In My Father’s House

Last year on a quiet Sunday evening  my father died. For weeks I’d visited him in a hospital ward  and sat by his bedside window as the autumn light faded. The doctors had made it clear that his life was ebbing away. But that did not prepare me for the end of a...

Without a vision …

The BBC’s Fergal Keane recently filed a report from South Africa where he recalls how few people, in the closing days of Apartheid, had much hope for the country, most expecting it to be torn apart by a bloody race war. No one imagined that within a decade, South...

Where have all the young men gone

Note: This post originally appeared on www.eamonmallie.com and is reproduced with the author’s permission Many in the educated liberal classes view the Armed Forces with ambivalence. They are necessary for national security but war is evil and its consequences...