A Carpe Diem Snapshot : With the end of the year approaching, I'm beginning to reflect on what New Year's resolutions have now become...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : This year's Santa Lucia portrait finds her haughtily posing with a dish towel on her head to prevent her locks...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : It is finished! The final festive feast of the Fall semester took place last night, on the Feast of Our Lady of...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Valentina has been creating Madonna and Child painting gifts lately, with this one going to Jiddoh and Teta in...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : What are the chances of running into two of my Art and Architecture students in front of this most famous...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This morning the ladies of the Fall 2024 Art and Architecture class presented their final project, their coat of...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : When guests visit, all the charming particularities of Rome become more apparent, including the elegant police...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: This morning we joined the Pontifical North American College community for their 160th anniversary celebration on...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: With the semester wrapping up, the Art and Architecture class students have begun presenting their final...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Happy Feast of St. Nicholas! This one has been eagerly antipating the traditions we keep on this day, such as...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Today was the final class for Art and Architecture of Rome of the Fall semester of 2024! We went out with a...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: The last two evenings, we met up with friends both old and new through the Newman Foundation and the Acton...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : Happy December! Today Tina spread a festive table for our minor feast of December, in which we learned more...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : First snow sighting of the season! These white capped mountains are the Appenines , and it is possible to reach...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : It was beginning to look at lot like Advent this morning at San Pietro in Montorio (no baby Jesus in the...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot : The end is upon us! Today is a kind of new year's eve for the liturgical year of the Roman rite. With the Feast...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Whenever I need to remind myself of why I am living in a city, and not the country, I take a walk up to the summit...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Happy Thanksgiving from the Villa Magnolia family! Liturgical: Thursday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Happy Birthday to Calendar Class's biggest evangelist, LeeAnn Corkery!! LeeAnn's son just happens to attend our...

A Carpe Diem Snapshot: Valentina may have invented a new theatrical art form with this, her latest expression of narrative illustration....