Beyond Giving Something Up: A Guide to the Lenten Table
Introduction: Reframing the 40 Days For many of us, Ash Wednesday brings the familiar question: "What am I giving up for Lent?" We often see these forty days as a…
A Sicily Pilgrimage: Family Heritage and Ancient Wonders from Palermo to Agrigento {#3 in the series}
Mosaics, a Market, Marsala, Monasteries, Miei Cugini and Martorana – from Sicily with Love Dear Reader, This is #3 in our series of travelogues all around Italy, the UK, and…
A Southern Italy Pilgrimage: From Padre Pio to the Sassi of Matera {#2 in the series}
Bologna and Cheese, Two Seas, Our Family Trees (And, Of Course, The "Usual" Saints and Eucharistic Miracles!) Dear Reader, This is #2 in our series of travelogues all around Italy,…
A Venice Pilgrimage: Morning Mass at San Marco and Island Hopping {#1 in the Series}
Dear Reader, This is #1 in our series of travelogues all around Italy, the UK, and Ireland from October 2024 through June 2025. This opening one largely lets the pictures…
A Pilgrim’s Guide to Bologna
Michelangelo, St. Luke, and the World's Longest Portico Saint Luke's Madonna, Painted by the Evanglist. Bologna is world-renowned for its food, home to ragu, lasagne, and pink-hued mortadella. We arrived with…
The Pendragon Premiere: A New Legend Begins
The premiere of The Pendragon Cycle (January 22, 2026) takes us back to the "Dark Ages" of Britain. Unlike the polished knights of later medieval tales, this series draws from…
Candlemas Home Decor
Candlemas: The Feast of Light As the last of the Christmas decorations have been packed away (for most of us), and the austere Lent is appearing on the horizon, many…
The Chalking of the Doors
How to Turn Your Threshold into a Sacramental for 2026, where everyone that enters will be blessed.
December 16th in Naples: Miracle of San Gennaro
“San Gennaro, protettore di Napoli!” The elderly women, called parenti, had been zealously and faithfully chanting all day, right up to that fateful moment when the chapel erupted in cheers…
York, England Catholic Sites: A Pilgrim’s Guide
York: A Pilgrimage Through Catholic England York was a pleasant surprise; we were not expecting a rich Catholic experience there. Instead, my mind was on Yorkshire pudding and cask-conditioned ales…