Maybe like a lot of people, I find the choices for the next president of the USA disappointing. Even if I had bothered to ask for an absente...

This weekend the clocks turn back here in Italy. Here they call Standard Time and Daylight Savings Time ora solare and ora legale , respect...

One of the brethren brought to my attention this excerpt from William Dean Howells's Venetian Life . The islands near Venice are all ...

Recently I was in an email conversation about an occasional topic on this blog, Capuchin beards and Capuchin beard-growing. One of the par...

On a Saturday morning one of the General Councilors of the Order was mopping his room. As I passed in the hallway, he remarked that in the o...

I received a couple of bits of salutary feedback on yesterday's post; I won't say 'fraternal correction,' just fraternal tho...

Recently I've had some occasions to think about liturgical abuse. Some of it, I think, is just pride and vainglory on the part of cler...