ROSA, speaking with her best friend, laments, “Sometime in early December I begin to feel it – seasonal insanity! Too much expense. Too many parties. Too much food. Too much...
WE ARE ALL familiar with the picture of St. Anthony holding the Christ-Child in his arms. It is, in the strictest and most literal sense ‘iconic’. It reminds us that, like Francis,...
DEAR FRIAR RICK: I am a 22-year-old girl and, alas, I am still a virgin. I said, “alas” because I have not maintained “the most precious gift a woman gives to her husband...
AT A TIME when the music industry is in dire straits the success of Friar Alessandro Brustenghi’s debut album Voice From Assisi has come as a complete surprise. Apart from the record...
SAINT ANTHONY has sometimes been referred to as “the Saint Paul of the Franciscan movement.” While this is, I think, a very misleading expression, it has this of truth: that, just as St....
DEAR FRIAR RICK: As time goes by I am slowly getting over the death of Henry, my dear beloved husband, which took place just seven years ago. Only last week, when I entered his study, I was able...
