Stuck in Traffic? Try Drive-By Prayers
The old man inched along the sidewalk toting a grocery sack. His back was painfully hunched and...
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Author: Lorraine Murray
Memoirs of a Nihilist—or What I Learned in College
I had to snicker. There was my college roommate, across the room from me, and she was on her knees by the bedside, saying her nightly prayers. I was over all that. I had attended Catholic schools for twelve years, and had been...
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An Angel’s Message on All Souls’ Day
A thick fog has settled on the shore. The sun looks bleached and bone-white, almost like the moon....
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Flannery O’Connor and the Devil’s Territory
Shocking, grotesque, violent, and dark! Readers often use these adjectives after reading Flannery...
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When a Phone Rings at Mass, It Could be God Calling
The priest in the small church in Seffner, Florida, where I attended Christmas Eve Mass, assured...
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