WHEN HER SON was 12, Chana Keefer, says it took every ounce of parenting skill to raise him. “He hated school and he picked on his little brother and sisters. He screamed and yelled at anyone...
style=width:218px;height:300px;float:right;" >SOME MONTHS ago I wrote that I would have liked to say more about my visit to Camposampiero, which I made as part of my pilgrimage to Padua for the...
OVER THREE million devotees flocked to venerate a relic of our Saint which Fr. Enzo Poiana, Rector of the Basilica of Saint Anthony in Padua, along with Fr. Alessandro Ratti, brought to the pearl of...
DEAR FRIAR RICK: Because of increasing evidence of the Church’s evasion and cover up of sex-abuse scandals, these months are ones of deep conflict for me. The crimes committed by priests...
THE FOURTH and final volume of my translation of the Sermons of Saint Anthony is to be published by Edizioni Messaggero Padova later this month. Attentive readers may remember me breathing a...
A TRULY delightful book dedicated to mothers, titled Super Mom, and subtitled A Guide to Kids, Family, Career and Having It All, was recently published in English by IPOC (Italian Paths...