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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...