As I mentioned in an earlier post, I actually took about 1,200 photos when we were in Rome. This, of course, wouldn't have happened ten ...

The above is a strange title but it's just the outcome of a some equally strange thoughts that bubbled up in my brain earlier today as I...

Although we've been home for several days, it's taken us that long to fully recover from the jet lag and the fact that we really too...

As you can all attest, I haven't been a very reliable a blogger on this trip. We have, though, been busy and this touristy stuff is a fu...

Monday was such a busy day that I simply had no time to post anything. We also returned to the hotel so tired that even the rock-hard bed wa...

Today began with a quick breakfast at the hotel followed by a brisk walk to St. Peters for 9 a.m. Mass. Among the sad commentaries on modern...

Diane and I were apparently more tired than we thought. We went to bed at 11 last night and awoke 11 hours later at 10 this morning. The onl...

We made it to Rome. It seemed to take forever since we flew first from Orlando to London (Gatwick) and then spent six not so interesting hou...

This morning, while browsing an online news site from Massachusetts, I came across an article about a woman who claims to have been ordained...

When I awoke early this morning and turned on the news to check the latest hurricane update, I caught the tail end of a news story about how...

It's been over a week since I posted anything on the blog, and it will likely be another week before I do so again. With four little gra...

If Florida has learned one thing these past few days, it's that you can have too much rain, even after a draught. Maybe another lesson i...

Last week, at his general audience at Castel Gandolfo, Pope Benedict focused on two 20th Century martyrs, St. Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein)...

Imagine being stuck in a relatively modest retirement home with four grandchildren aged 1 to 7 awaiting the arrival of a tropical storm (and...

Once again it's early morning, probably the only truly quiet time in our home...at least for a few weeks. You see, one of our daughters ...

I've become one of those people who greets the Olympic games with a yawn. I wasn't always that way. I can recall being glued to the ...

A few months ago, while conducting a brief, overview course on the history of the Catholic Church for catechists and Catholic school teach...

Diane (my beautiful and wonderful wife of 40 years) and I have decided to make another pilgrimage to Rome. We'll spend ten days in the e...

It's another beautiful morning...I think. It's 5 a.m. and still quite dark outside, but here in central Florida most days are beauti...

Well, now... here I am doing something I swore I'd never do: start my own blog. It's not like I don't have enough to do without ...