How America’s first saint nearly went down with the R.M.S. Titanic
The little known story of St. Mother Cabrini’s last transatlantic crossing. They would be disappointed of course. They wanted to see her one more time before she left for New York. They were also working to secure passage for her, Sister Antony, and Sister Mary aboard this grand new ship that was to depart from […]
The Church that Rose when the Towers Fell
This story definitely shows how Providence works: Read why the church near the World Trade Center was there at all. [New York, NY – September 11, 2019] By Jeffrey Bruno – In 1785 when the cornerstone was set for what would be the first parish church in New York State, the builders would have been […]
A Triumph of Faith and Love in the Face of a Pandemic
The First Profession of Sister Lucia Marie OP [Summit, NJ – March 20, 2020] Photography and text by Jeffrey Bruno It was possible that no one would be able to attend. With only a few days before the Sr. Lucia’s First Profession, they learned that her brother, a seminarian in Maryland, couldn’t come. Her parents […]
The Prayer of the Atheist
Be as loud as you want, something inside us won’t be silenced… Don’t judge me, but I love heavy metal music. In fact, I spent the first half of my adult life completely immersed in the genre. It has a certain guttural power that other forms of music lack, and there’s something deeply visceral and […]