by Charles Cameron | Mar 15, 2015 | Monitor
[ Charles Cameron — Garry Wills sees “holy war” lurking just around the corner ] . Pro-Russia fighters near the eastern Ukrainian city of Starobeshevo in Donetsk region, on 25 February. Photograph: Vasily Maximov/AFP/Getty Images ** Let’s be...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — from one Jesuit to another across centuries ] ** The Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote these lines in his incomparable poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland, in 1875 — an ode on what was for the poet a deeply moving current event,...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 28, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — remembering that there are two calendars, two times, the secular and the sacred, and that there’s more poetry, more depth of heart and thus intellect too, in the sacred calendar — a truth made known also to popes and monarchs ]...
