By Hermit Carol McDonough (Private lay Life Vows of thirty years) “The Way” 54/1 (January 2015), pp. 76-89.) The Way is an International Journal of Contemporary Christian Spirituality, published by the Jesuits in Great Britain. Through writing informed by critical and creative scholarship, it aims to provide a forum in which thoughtful Christians, from different walks of life and different traditions, reflect on God’s continuing action in human experience.

“LA MUERTE ES CHICA” And the Beatification of the Cristero Martyr José Luis Sánchez del Río By Fr. Juan Pablo Ledesma L.C. Translated by permission of the author: Padre Juan Pablo Ledesma L.C. Friday, 11 May 2018 Original Title: “La muerte es chica” En la Beatificación del mártir cristero José Luis Sánchez del Río; for Silentium Magazine – NB: missed in translation: By this title the Author signifies that death is a small thing, little, tiny, or petite when we speak of martyrdom. It is not always possible to translate word for word.
“The Necessity of Reverence Cultivating a pilgrim’s eye for beauty” By Sister Dominic Mary Heath O.P., at Our Lady of Grace Monastery, North Guilford, CT. With kind permission of the Author and The Plough Quaterly to whom we are indebted for this wonderful article, and to the Rev. Canon Scott Gunn, for his photographs. Scott is an Episcopal priest, and serves as the Executive Director of Forward Movement in Cincinnati, OH.

“Praying from the Depths of the Psalms – The Ground Zero of Prayer” by Rev. John Henry Hanson, O.PRAEM., is a Norbertine priest of St Michael’s Abbey in Silverado, California. This article came from Religious Life (A publication of the Institute of Religious Life (March-April 2020 pp. 3-5) by kind permission. Ⓒ 2020 Institute of Religious Life Inc.)

“Facing Down the Wolf: A gay Priest’s vocation“. by The Reverend Fr. James Alison, a Catholic theologian, priest and author. His principal claim to fame is as one of those who has done most to bring the work of the great French thinker René Girard to a wider public. In addition, he is known for his firm but patient insistence on truthfulness in matters gay as an ordinary part of basic Christianity, and for his pastoral outreach in the same sphere.