"The VB who pens this April Charterhouse Chronicle is not the same person who wrote in March,” Virginia Barton, the Catholic Herald’s popular columnist of the late 1980s and early 1990s, informed backpage readers of the paper in 1990. “She has been to the Holy Land. You cannot paddle in the Jordan at the foot of Mount Hermon and remain unchanged. If you’ve leaned against the wind on Mt Nebo and shared with Moses that first glimpse of the Promised Land, some inward shift of vision is inevitable.”