The Saving Power of Christmas
A Christmas Story by Fr Ralph de Hahn It was the year 1940. A menacing terror was gripping all Europe. War was in the air. Holland cried...
Short Stories
The Baby and the Blanket – A Christmas Story by Fr Ralph de Hahn
Fr Ralph de Hahn wrote Christmas stories in The Southern Cross 69 years ago. Then a 25-year-old seminarian, he published his story “When Darkness Falls” in the...
Fr Ralph de Hahn: From Vienna to Brooklyn NYC
Short Story By Fr Ralph De Hahn Pastor Jim Dunn was appointed to the parish church on 68th Street in Brooklyn, New York City. He and his...
The World of Glass – A Christmas story by Fr Ralph de Hahn
Little Alice always loved window-shopping, but this window was special. Standing before this huge shop display on the morning of Christmas Eve she found herself totally absorbed and mystified by the wonderful scene before her searching eyes.
Reuben’s Star – Anna’s Christmas Story
A short story by Margaret Schewe – Reuben was a fine astronomer, and as usual he was gazing up into the night skies. Keeping him company on this...
Young Shepherd Comes to the Light
The Blind Beggar is a short Christmas story by FR RALPH DE HAHN – a shepherd’s story From the age of nine I had cared for the...
Our very own Christmas Story – on the Road
Sometimes we encounter Christmas stories in unexpected places, as WINNIE?GRAHAM found one wet December day.
Yehonatan and the baby
A short story by Louis Mallett He was street-child of his day, and Yehonatan’s mother had him up at first light. There would be good pickings in...
The bell of St Raphael
A short story by Fr Ralph de Hahn Port Raphael, on the Capes West Coast, was just a small insignificant fishing village, no more than 150 inhabitants,...
