by Bill Dal Cerro | Dec 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
As the Christmas season is upon us, I want to do what American poet Robert Frost did and “take the road less travelled by.” Instead of the usual clichés, enjoyable though they may be (presepi, the Feast of the Seven Fishes, Midnight Mass at St. Peter’s, etc.), I’d...
by John Mancini | Dec 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
A new cable series (AppleTV+) is coming next January paying homage to the bomber crews of World War II. This collaboration by the two men – Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks – who have been extolling the virtues and sacrifices of the “Greatest Generation” will follow...
by John Mancini | Dec 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
My title, a famous movie epic of the 1950s. It’s Latin for “Where are you going?” In legend, it was Peter’s question to a vision of Jesus. Ultimately, it was Peter’s call to his own martyrdom. In today’s increasingly chaotic national and international...
by John Mancini | Nov 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
As my soon to be seven-year-old grandson gets older I can’t help but measure his progress against my own bygone youth. Surely, this is a common exercise among parents and grandparents. My grandson is of mixed ethnicity, all Euro-American. He hasn’t an Italian...
by Bill Dal Cerro | Nov 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
Anyone following current politics has probably heard the phrase “Great Replacement Theory.” Put forth by French author Renaud Camus in 2010, the theory posits that Europeans–both in Europe and here in America–are being not-so-subtly replaced by...
by John Mancini | Nov 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
There have been many concerned citizens over the years who have warned of the death of Western Civilization. They uniformly believe that unfettered immigration from Third World countries would be the means to our end. Is this ‘the-sky-is-falling’ panic just...
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