Faith, Fiction, Friends

Travel writer  Rick Steves  says Orvieto in central Italy is precisely what an Italian hill town should be. Poet  Paul Willis  agrees.   A w...

Peppi has just buried Anna, his beloved wife of almost 45 years. They met and lived in Rhode Island, but Peppi was born in the Italian villa...

It is the spring of 1992. Luca Taviano is a red-haired boy living with his grandparents. His parents died in an automobile accident when he ...

If you can’t travel, you can still find romance in Europe Ruth Davenport is an American romance writer who can’t seem to find any r...

Samantha is finally realizing the dream of her young life – traveling to Florence to see and study its great works of art and especiall...

Frankie (short for Francesca) is a late-20-, early-30-something woman who lives in contemporary Wales. She has two children and a rathe...

I was all of 14 when I first met Don Camillo . A good friend (and rather devout Catholic) recommended the stories to me. I found a paper...

He was a boy who came from a relatively poor family living in a small town near Florence. He was able to go to a school in Florence, bu...

Only in Italy -- a nun wins the country's national singing competition -- with a song from the movie "Flashdance."