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The ancient Jews had two calendars, one civil and one religious. The religious one was reckoned to start in spring. The civil one in the fall. Of course, our calendar starts, weirdly enough, in the dead of winter. The Jewish religious calendar started just as all of nature was coming

“I think it’s important to distinguish between faith and religion,” said a man I know. “Religion too often is merely the perversion of faith.” We often hear such things said, usually as an argument for maintaining the supposed “wall of separation” between religion and politics that is supposed to be

Every time you meet somebody afflicted by a confusion between the sanctity of the priestly office and the sanctity of the person who holds it; or a conviction that the priesthood is all about power, not love and service; or the notion that the only true forum for our gifts