Madonna di Montevergine, ora pro nobis February arrives stripped of illusions. The year is no longer new, but it has not yet learned how to ...

(L-R) Sant'Agata, Madonna di Lourdes, and Sant'Antonino di Sorrento February is traditionally the month the Church dedicates to the ...

Archival photograph by the author Being snowed in for a few days in late January did something rare: it cleared the noise. With nowhere to g...

Beata Maria Cristina, ora pro nobis O God, You adorned Blessed Maria Cristina with diligent and wise charity, so that by her witness, she wo...

I’m told that reaching 3,000,000 visitors is a big deal. Friends insist on it. People who understand analytics assure me that I should pause...

A vintage Pernod absinthe poster presiding over the meal After the traditional Latin Mass, we met a friend at a cozy Parisian-style bistro i...

2 February 1933 – 29 January 2022 In memory of  S.A.R.  Elisabetta  delle Due Sicilie, Princess  of Württemberg , Dowager  Duchess of Calabr...

Mythological Scene with the Rape of Persephone , early 1680s, oil on canvas, Luca Giordano, The National Gallery "Nature, as such, has ...

In Castellana Grotte (BA)

Sal Buscema (born Silvio Buscema), one of the great craftsmen of American comic art, passed away on January 24, 2026, two days before his 90...

Philippe Marie Jean de Vassal-Cadillac Born on August 14, 1850, Philippe Marie Jean de Vassal-Cadillac joined the Papal Zouaves in February ...

The Death of Henri de La Rochejaquelein by Alexandre Bloch "Friends, if I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge ...

The Crown Jewels , 1887, by Blaise Desgoffe. The painting depicts the Crown of King Louis XV and the sword of Blessed Emperor Charlemagne Wh...

Photo by New York Scugnizzo

Written in 1892, this passage from The Making of Italy by Patrick Keyes O’Clery offers a contemporary Catholic critique of post-unification...

Ecce Homo (recto) and St. Jerome in Penitence (verso), double-sided panel, tempera grassa on panel, Antonello da Messina, circa 1430-1479 ...

Heartfelt thanks to my friends for these remarkably thoughtful birthday gifts. The October 1977 issue of The Connoisseur —with its deep atte...

A friend recently showed me two newspapers from his collection, each bearing a stark illustration of the 1891 lynching of Sicilians i...

Makeshift shrine with portraits of Queen Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI   Domine salvum fac Regem et exaudi nos in die qua invocaverimu...