Yet his contribution, which includes a description of a stiff, ex-army father’s begrudging, but complete, acceptance of his hijra son, is one of the best.
During my colleagues, there are so many superexcellent ones, trickish ones, adulatory ones, who are doing better than me, and I have fallen to a walk-on.
In today's catechesis we turn to Saint Columban, one of the many Irish monks who contributed to the re-evangelization of Europe in the early Middle Ages.