A speaker from Harvard, whose name I have long forgotten, recited to us the only poem he ever penned. The last two lines of his sole poetic effort linger in my memory: “It’s just the reverse of what Darwin said/We are going back to the quadruped.” The lines are comical, but... Read More →

   [This (2009) column is reprinted from Fun Is Not Enough, a collection of Fr. Francis Canavan’s Catholic eye columns edited by Dawn Eden Goldstein and published in 2017.] __________________________________________________________________________ Since man is a social... Read More →