July 6, 2026

Controra: When Midday Falls Silent

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Phoebus Apollo, beneath the blistering sun at Pompeii As the summer sun bears down with its full fury, I find myself doing what generations ...

Photo of the Week: Apollo Citharoedus, Vatican Museums

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Apollo Citharoedus ("Apollo the cithara-player"),  also known as Apollo Musagetes ("Apollo, Leader of the Muses"), mar...
July 5, 2026

Orpheus and Eurydice

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Orpheus and Eurydice , 1893, Auguste Rodin When Eurydice, The beloved bride of the       poet-bard Orpheus, Was claimed by death He desce...

New Book — The Situated Science of Nicola Caputi: Witnessing Wonders in the Eighteenth-Century Kingdom of Naples

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A forthcoming title that may be of interest to our readers. Available at Amazon.com • The Situated Science of Nicola Caputi: Witnessing Wond...
July 4, 2026

The Last Settlers?

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On this Independence Day, as Americans celebrate the 250th anniversary of These United States, I have found myself reflecting upon a meme I ...

Feast of San Piergiorgio Frassati

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San Piergiorgio Frassati, ora pro nobis July 4 is the feast of Pier Giorgio Frassati, a Dominican tertiary whose brief life of holiness cont...
July 3, 2026

In Search of the Devil’s Bridge with the Ghost of the Count of Sciancato

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In Search of… with the Ghost of the Count of Sciancato  explores mysteries where history and legend blur and conjecture begins—along with th...

Catholic Movie Night at Atrium Stadium Cinemas in Staten Island, New York

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July 2, 2026

Fuoco Fatuo

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The Will-o’-the-Wisp and the Snake (1901) by Hermann Hendrich. A Symbolist interpretation of the fuoco fatuo The other evening, I mentioned...

Among the Ruins of a Republic: An Afternoon in the American Wing

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Washington Crossing the Delaware , 1851, oil on canvas, Emanuel Leutze With the Semiquincentennial of These United States fast approaching, ...

Awaiting Werwulf

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Few films have me genuinely counting the days, but Robert Eggers’ forthcoming Werwulf is one of them. Judging from the trailer alone, it p...

Feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius at St. Mary of Mt. Virgin Church in New Brunswick, New Jersey

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July 1, 2026

Blood and the Heights of Summer

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Santa Rosalia, San Pantaleone, and Madonna del Carmine, orate pro nobis July does not awaken like April, Crown like May, Or stand watch like...

Happy National U.S. Postage Stamp Day!

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In honor of National U.S. Postage Stamp Day, I am sharing a first-day cover and blocks of Spanish stamps commemorating the Carlist state...

Saints of the Day for July

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(L-R) Sant'Enrico II, Madonna delle Grazie, and Santa Veronica Giuliani July is the month traditionally dedicated by the Church to the M...

Sixth Sunday After Pentecost at Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Jersey City, New Jersey

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June 30, 2026

Between East and West: Finding Both Lungs of the Church

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Christ Pantocrator , Cathedral of Monreale, Sicily For over a decade now, I have been a regular attendee of the Traditional Latin Mass. Its ...

Pope Leo XIII on Wealth, Poverty, and Virtue

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Portrait of Pope Leo XIII , ca. 1878, Fabio Cipolla "...The true worth and nobility of man lie in his moral qualities, that is, in virt...
June 29, 2026

An Afternoon at Coney Island

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Entrance to the Scream Zone with the iconic Steeplechase Face   For old times’ sake, a few friends and I spent the afternoon at Coney Island...