Rebirth in Italy: Chasing the Renaissance
This is not just a travel site. It is also not just a Catholic site as well. Nor, if I may press further, is it only a mix of the two – i.e., travel to Catholic sites with some commentary and personal...
View ArticleSecrets of An Ancient City: Power In the Old World
“There is something hidden underneath this city.” “You are right,” came the young native Italian woman’s reply as we sat upon the piazza of one of the most ancient towns in all of Italy. “There is.”...
View ArticleLies in London: Could I Continue To Ignore The Truth?
“I really think you are living with terrorists – you have to get out of there, and fast.” The words of my friend echoed through my mind as I passed my roommate in the hall, his eyes boring darkly into...
View ArticleA Timeless Battle: The Pursuit For The Power Of Art
As I left Brompton Oratory in London, my mind swirled with thoughts of angels and archangels, statues and paintings, time and history…good and evil. My long path carried me down to the river Thames,...
View ArticleSymbolism On The Streets Of New York
In the timeless battle of good versus evil, I had come to realize one of the most fundamental weapons that each side of the spiritual realm struggles passionately to use as a window for their varied...
View ArticleHidden In Plain Sight: The Canvas of Culture
I now had my answer. New York City and the Rockefeller’s had all too generously provided it for me. In the timeless battle of good versus evil, I understood that the arts, but most of all visual art...
View ArticleA Latin Mass Does Not A “Vetus Ordo” Make: Part II
Ok, so I know I said that I wanted to write but simply could not…the only problem is, now that I actually said just a tiny corner of the things that I think (and that have been perplexing me for so...
View ArticleThe “Masculine” Church: Be Careful What You Wish For
Recently, I read a post online that really…well, bothered me. It was a short post in support of the Latin Mass (yay!) but the author, in my humble opinion, did the legendary Mass of the Ages a great...
View ArticleAn Infinite Mystery of Balance & Harmony: Man & Woman
One day, some many years ago now, I began to question what it means to be a woman. I do not know exactly what spurred such a search. When I was younger, it was not really something that I thought about...
View ArticleIn A Shop of Scattered Dreams: Forgotten Traditional Nuns
Tonight I ask a question, a question that I have sought an answer to for so many years. What is a woman? My God, sometimes how I wonder. How I wonder. In My Shop of Scattered Dreams I stepped through...
View ArticleReclaiming the Sacred Begins: A Visual Witness to Truth
I have a confession to make. It is a confession that may scandalize some, and worry others – those who are yet to understand. But it is truth, a truth that I hold dear to my heart, and that truth is...
View ArticleUnwrapping A Veil of Mystery: The Mantilla
In my last post (you can read that here), I shared a very symbolic, personal “theology” (I put that in quotes, because I am by no means a theologian), behind why I, a modern, 21st century,...
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