Nicolas Poussin's The Healing of the Blind of JerichoThis is the homily I wrote for this morning's Mass for an English-speaking congregation in Switzerland...
The Secret Life of Walter MittyIn the 2013 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Ben Stiller stars as a daydreaming nobody working at Life magazine. Based ...
Catholic commentators from Russell Shaw of The Catholic World Report to Fr. Daniel P. Horan with America magazine have rekindled a centuries old debate over...
Interior of Saint John Cantius, Chicago. Photo credit: American Chamber OperaIn the 1987 crime drama, The Untouchables, Eliot Ness (Kevin Costner) along wi...
Attention all bloggers and readers of blogs: please spread the good news about this event. Our goal is to pack the Upper Basilica of Holy Hill.Why? you ...
The Synod is fast approaching the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. The hierarchy, genuine and loving, is taking this time to rejuvenate Cream City.From time immemo...
Lúcia Santos and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta MartoNinety-six years ago today, October 13th, 1917, was "the day the sun danced": the day of the great...
When I was a little girl, we moved from Madison to Milwaukee. Moving day was a turbulent affair — for my parents. For us children, it was a thrilling adventur...
I am haunted by Goldie. She lurks downtown in a school near the old Schlitz Brewery. She stands in the library on the Downer Avenue campus of the University o...