CATEGORY: SESSIUNCULUM — Fr. John Zuhlsdorf @ 2:22 pm From the website of the Diocese of Patterson straight talk to your computer screen. His Excellency Most Rev. Arthur Serratelli has something to say about the election. WDTPRS has written about Bishop Serratelli before. You will remember his series of articles on the sense of the sacred. Folks… this is a great piece. We need more men like Bp. Serratelli. My emphases and comments. A Politician’s Promise: No Right to Life! No Freedom! After committing a murder in Rome, the famous 17th century Italian painter Caravaggio went to Malta to avoid the death penalty. While there, the Great Master of the Order of the Knights of Malta commissioned him to do a painting for the chapel of the Co-Cathedral of St. John in Valletta. Caravaggio chose as his theme the martyrdom of John the...
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