Editorial

DEAR reader, one of my favorite Christmas stories is The Small One. As a child, I read Charles Tazewell’s book several times, and only many years later did I discover that Disney had made a short, animated movie out of it...

Dear Friend, have you ever heard of the Madonnari? They are itinerant artists who create their beautiful drawings on pavements such as streets, sidewalks and town squares using colored chalks. In many countries they are simply called “street artists,” but here in Italy they are called Madonnari because their favorite subject is the Madonna, that is, Our Lady...

IN A FEW days, on October 4, we will celebrate the feast of one of the greatest and true peacemakers of all times: St Francis of Assisi...

SAINT Anthony is, without doubt, one of the most venerated saints in the world, and this is why, at the beginning of the 20th century, Pope Leo XIII called him “the saint of the whole world”

HOW does God communicate with us? Well, I would say in many ways....

LAST December I was in Miami, one of the world’s most popular vacation spots. I was not there for a holiday, but for a 10-day tour of the city and surrounding areas with two relics of our Saint. Accompanied by my assistant Tom, we were graced with wonderful weather and, because most days we were in one parish in the morning and in another parish in the afternoon, we had time to appreciate the beauty of the place, at least from our car window...