A Wise Man Ends His Pilgrimage
With the funeral of Pope Benedict XVI on the day before the Epiphany, the Catholic world bade farewell to a wise man, a scholar-pope, at the end of his pilgrimage. On this day, our observation of birth and life and a new year intermingles with death. So it was for the Magi as imagined in T.S. Eliot’s famous poem, “The Journey of the Magi”; and so it is for us now. Though not the immediate...
