Author: Tom Faranda

My friend Laura put me on to this picture, very coincidentally, yesterday. It is by British artist Herbert Schmalz (1856-1935). You can just see Calvary in the upper right hand corner. This morning I will be doing the Pax Christi Stations of the Cross, going across midtown Manhattan.

As Donald Luskin says on his blog, this has got to be the “Magazine cover of the year. … And it’s only March.”

Here’s the first of nine interesting interpretations of the Last Supper. Hit the link below the picture for the others – I especially like 2, 4, and 6. You have to read the note to #9 to figure it out! The Last Supper – 1 of 9 | Christianity Today

I just got an email that this priest had died. I knew him a little, and then Brigid and I had some very pleasant contact with him. Tim and his birth mother stayed in his home (it was below Kingston, NY) before Tim was born. I doubt if we had seen Fr. at all in…

Yesterday morning there was a terribly sad and shocking accident at the Croton-Harmon railway station, as Theresa Fiorentino, the operator of the newstand in the station was struck and killed by an Amtrak train. Like everyone else who ever commuted to New York, I saw the lady all the time back when I was a…

I liberated this picture from the Althouse weblog.   Here’s a feature in today’s Wall Street Journal that’s timely – New York and the Famine – WSJ.com On this St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland is peaceful and prosperous. The animosities of the past will have little bearing on the great parade that travels up Fifth Avenue…

Last Friday morning we had our first hike up a hill. We made the 2 mile round trip up Sugarloaf, a couple of miles north of Cold Spring. Joe and I had gone up the 900 foot high “mountain” last May. Tom Faranda’s Folly: Tom and Joe’s Sunday climb up Sugarloaf We decided it would…

The Yankee closer and future Hall of Famer. In today’s NY Times. How to conduct oneself when you’re a superstar. Rivera’s a Closer With an Open Heart – New York Times Over and over, Veras used the word dream to describe how it felt to be teammates and friends with his idol. They talk shop,…