November 5, 2026

Mistaken for My Celebrity Doppelgänger, Again

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The other day, a lady on the street mistook me for Billy Joel. I told her I get that all the time, to which she replied, “Thank God, I didn’...

Requiem Mass at St. Margaret's Church in the Bronx, New York

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November 4, 2026

A Pilgrimage Postponed: Sant’Uberto and the Casina Vanvitelliana

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Michael Martin's Mythologies of the Wild God , resting on the tanned hide of a deer hunted by my father Orion rises with the fall of the...

Name Day of the Grand Master

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HRH, Prince Charles  of  Bourbon-Two Sicilies We wish our Grand Master, His Royal Highness Prince Charles of Bourbon-Two Sicilies a blessed ...

Requiem Mass at St. Catherine Laboure Church in Middletown, New Jersey

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November 3, 2026

A Reflection on the Day of the Legitimate Monarchy

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Reading Riccardo Pasqualin’s article, Prepariamoci per il Giorno della Monarchia Legittima (Let Us Prepare for the Day of the Legitimat...

My Encounter With the Not-So-Abominable Snowman

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On this Election Day, I thought I would share a curious encounter I had recently, which turned into an unexpected lesson in the hidden worki...

A Change of Plans: The Siren City Will Have to Wait

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The embossed leather dust jacket for my new journal, adorned with the Three Graces Well, it seems my return to Napoli was not meant to be, a...

Vespers for the Dead at Good Shepherd Parish in Hopelawn, New Jersey

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November 2, 2026

The Siren Calls: Returning to Parthenope

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Me beneath the statue of the Holy Roman Emperor Federico II di Svevia, sculpted by Emanuele Caggiano, in a niche on the western façade of th...

Photo of the Week: Satyr Playing the Flute, Vatican Museum

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Photo by New York Scugnizzo

Feast of St. Charles Borremeo at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco, California

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Requiem Mass at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament in New Rochelle, New York

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November 1, 2026

Unbowed

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To Arms! (1888), Edmund Blair Leighton I had an interesting encounter the other day with an annoying little fellow, a self-important blowha...

All Souls' Day at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Jersey City, New Jersey

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All Souls' Day at the Oratory of St. Josaphat in Bayside, Queens

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October 31, 2026

A Brilliant Darkness: Tea With Naglowska (A Halloween Tale)

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"La Sophiale de Montparnasse" The dream is the small, hidden door in the deepest, most intimate sanctum of the soul. ~ Carl Jung ...

Claesz’s Vanitas: A Meditation on Death

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Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill , 1628, oil on wood, Pieter Claesz Among the many treasures at the Metropolitan Museum of Ar...

All Souls at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Jersey City, New Jersey

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October 30, 2026

Why This Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fan Refuses to Watch Sci-Fi/Fantasy

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No, I’m not making this up. This is an actual promo for The Rings of Power , season three, showing the teenage children of Prince Durin and ...

Spooky-Scary!

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Waffles and Sammy Famous for its spectacular “Dyker Lights” Christmas displays, Dyker Heights is also home to the lesser-known “Dyker Fright...

Remembering Joseph-Louis Guérin

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Portrait of the "little Zouave," Joseph-Louis Gu é rin, circa 1860 “Blood is necessary to appease the anger of God; I will give mi...

Feast of All Saints at Our Lady of Sorrows in Jersey City, New Jersey

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October 29, 2026

A Prayer for Toledo

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Virgen del Sagrario, ora pro nobis Our thoughts and prayers go out to the victims of the tragic train collision in the province of Toledo, S...

In Search of Aleister Crowley in Cefalù with the Ghost of the Count of Sciancato

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As Halloween approaches, In Search of… with the Ghost of the Count of Sciancato ventures into the strange, the macabre, and the uncanny, ex...