Holy Family  by Salvatore di Franco "The Word became flesh and dwelt among us." - John 1:14  On behalf of everyone here a...

Detail of the Neapolitan Baroque crèche at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,  showing the Holy Family, various animals, and putti Gloria in e...

In Napoli

Blessed Nicholas Factor, ora pro nobis December 23rd is the Feast of Blessed Nicholas Factor (1520–1583)—priest, painter, and Franciscan who...

Virgin Mary Nursing the Christ Child, Hermeneia , in Coptic and Greek, written and illuminated by the Deacon Basili and his son Samouel, Egy...

With a commanding 2–0 victory over Bologna, Napoli have lifted the Supercoppa Italiana, adding yet another prestigious honor to the club’s s...

Naples remembered in small tokens He who doesn’t love Naples has yet to learn how to love life. ~ Anonymous After Latin Mass on the 4th Sun...

Juan Vásquez de Mella y Fanjul (8 June 1861—18 February 1928) This is why every man, even without realizing it and against his will, is a tr...

Photo by New York Scugnizzo

Ulysses and the Sirens , c.1909, oil on canvas, by Herbert James Draper This year, as the winter solstice marks the return of light, Naples ...

Photo by New York Scugnizzo The winter solstice marks the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. The occasion signifies the co...

San Vincenzo Romano, ora pro nobis December 20th is the universal feast of San Vincenzo Romano (1751–1831), the humble and devoted parish pr...

Found a handful of Sicilian-themed postcards and bookmarks at the Italian American Emporium in Little Italy, New York.

A new title that may be of interest to our readers. Available at Amazon.com • Pulcinella, The Mask and the Soul of Naples: An Illustrated St...

Juan Vásquez de Mella y Fanjul (8 June 1861—18 February 1928) Man reasons and, therefore, invents, combines, transforms, that is, progresses...

Back in 1966, New York’s WPIX gave fireplace-deprived apartment dwellers a gift of pure comfort: the Yule Log , a flickering hearth loop tha...

Just spotted a U.S. Salernitana 1919 sticker in Little Italy—a flash of granata pride in the heart of New York City. Even here, far...

A new title that may be of interest to our readers. Available at Amazon.com • To Look Upon Naples is to Die by Alessandro Musone Publisher: ...

The beautifully decorated sanctuary at Our Lady of Peace Church Back home from upstate, I attended the Latin Mass in Brooklyn on a snowy Gau...