Mel Gibson

Letter #1, 2025, Mon, Jan 13: Gibson and Top Ten 2024 #10

    Letter #1, 2025, Monday, January 13: Gibson and Our Top Ten of 2024, #10         A few preliminary thoughts as the year 2025 begins.     ***     The Church we love faces a profound fracture. If we wish to preserve and defend the "one, holy, catholic and apostolic" Church, our work lies before us. And each day the [...]

The Stone Churches of Matera

The entrance to the Crypt of Original Sin in Matera Matera is a small town in southern Italy famous for two things: its astonishing rock churches (named a Unesco World Heritage Site in 1993) and its poverty. There is hardly an electric light or a wire in sight. The panorama, the hollow cave-rooms gaping [...]