I often commute to Tokyo for work. There are many train lines in Japan, and in the capital, they weave and tangle like cat’s-cradle strings. Some evenings, on the long ride home, my train ends up running parallel for a few moments with some other train on some other track... Read More →

  This essay first appeared in Pins in the Liberal Balloon, a 1990 collection of essays from Fr. Canavan. ____________________________________________________________________________ The face of the earth has changed over the centuries and is changing more radically in the... Read More →