It is that time of year Television will show probably twice around Christmas and once on Christmas Eve Frank Capra s now classic film It s a Wonderful Life When it first appeared in late 1946 the film was not a best-selling standout It actually initially lost money Now it is regard

ldquo It was terrible just terrible rdquo says Delille Antione He rsquo s speaking about his experience during the earthquake on January 10 2010 in Port-au-Prince ldquo I really don rsquo t want to talk about it I don 39 t want to think about it again rdquo And unlike a lot of people ove

Today on a hillside overlooking Port-au-Prince I met the boy who has no name Scratch that I rsquo m sure he has a name I just was unable to find it out He began following me soon after I arrived at a camp in the city rsquo s village of Carradeux a place where hundreds of families have lived si

The General Social Survey a comprehensive questionnaire perennially studying the habits and demographics of Americans asks participants about their views on the afterlife From Chicago Magazine in 1983 and 1984 the people running the GSS decided to ask people about their visions of the afterlif

In Port-au-Prince at St Pierre parish one of the few Catholic churches that didn rsquo t collapse in the January 2010 earthquake which devastated this city of 3 7 million people everyone is dressed as smartly as they can at Sunday Mass in the evening the way people in New York did when I was a k

Cambridge MA This is the second of my Advent reflections occasioned by the Sunday readings reflection on the state of my soul and our souls and other things as well See the first here I just finished ndash on CD while driving home from my parish - Jennifer duBois rsquo fine first novel