Dear Tim, I was sorry to hear about your latest debacle – but perhaps not so sorry as you might think.  To be soundly trounced in public debate can do

Dear Paula, Here in my prison of a cubicle, I have little to do but pray for you and my other relations, and consider the wise and mysterious mercy of

Dear Frank, Be neither afraid nor surprised by encountering opposition to your true vocation – even from those who love you best.  If following God’s will were always easy, logical,

Dear Ruby, In my avuncular opinion, you are worrying about the wrong thing.  Discerning God’s call in your life is not about tallying all the things you have to give

Dear Sarah, I only have a few precious minutes to write (another series of interrogations begins today – they think they found some new “evidence” against me, which is hardly

Dear Lambert, My pitiless guards (may God forgive them) just slid a recent article from “The Campus Times” under my cubicle wall, laughing all the while.  It very scientifically tabulates

Dear Basia, Have you ever considered why some saints are made “patrons” of certain things?  Theologians point out that it is a practice that goes way back, and is based

Dear Stan, Always good to hear from you, my faithful nephew, though your last note brought ominous tidings.  In your description of the recent successes of your campus activities you

Dear Deirdre, Your last few notes have been gloomy, to say the least.  You always tended to be a bit pessimistic, and the events of these past few weeks have