The Lent Issue
THE LENT ISSUE THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC WEEKLY MARCH 7, 2011 $3.50 OF MANY THINGS PUBLISHED BY JESUITS OF THE UNITED STATES f all the items in the two-room remainder of the ransom. But the fami - apartment in Sin el Fil, ly had already given all their money. EDITOR IN CHIEF Drew Christiansen, S.J. OLebanon—the low, hard The kidnappers told Amal: couches, the folding table covered with “Consider yourself a widow.” She took EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT bags of food, the single bed, the stack of her children north from Baghdad to MANAGING EDITOR votive candles covered with pictures of Mosul, living there for four years before Robert C. Collins, S.J. saints—the most heartbreaking is the even that became too dangerous. They EDITORIAL DIRECTOR pants. Made of thin, tan cotton and fled to Lebanon, hoping to find work. Karen Sue Smith covered with faded images of the But life in Lebanon has not been ONLINE EDITOR Peanuts character Snoopy, they could easy. Amal cleaned offices until prob - Maurice Timothy Reidy be worn by any child, in any country. lems with her joints became too debili - CULTURE EDITOR But this pair covers the legs of Mark, a tating. Because of his epilepsy, Mark James Martin, S.J. 6-year-old Chaldean Iraqi refugee who does not go to school. Neither do Fadi, LITERARY EDITOR lives just outside Beirut. 15, and their sister, Donia, 13. Both Patricia A. Kossmann I sit on one of the couches in the siblings work in a chocolate factory, POETRY EDITOR midst of a small pack of journalists often for more than nine hours a day, to James S.
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