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When Jesus “came down from heaven” it was not simply to be born in Bethlehem. He came further and further down, to poverty, rejection, pain, betrayal, death, and finally, to the depths of the grave through crucifixion, the very worst form of death Hell ever invented. There is no abyss

It is fitting that October is the month of the Feast of St. Francis. St. Francis was not a bookish fellow at all. And yet, for all his unbookishness, he had one quirk which sets him off from much of information-soaked modernity: he wrote poetry. Poetry is, for us, vaguely

Back in 1971, when experiments in educational theory from pointy headed intellectuals with no children were just starting to become all the rage, my fellow seventh graders and I were pulled out of what used to be called a “junior high” and packed off to a newly built experiment in