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by Brett Manero While traveling through the Washington, DC area this past summer, I visited two places where I had always wanted to visit: Mt. Vernon in Alexandra, Virginia, and the Museum of the Bible, in the city of Washington. The museum was built after I had left DC in 2015, and during all of…

by Brett Manero Without a doubt, the biggest film of the summer of 2027 is The Odyssey, directed by the brilliant Christopher Nolan and starring Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway, among many others. Based on Homer’s classic tale of the Greek king who is trying to return to his homeland after years of war and…

by Brett Manero Below is a trailer for my first short film (that is not a wedding or travel video), Jude and the Bartender. It’s been an amazing experience from the start: writing a script, casting actors and actresses, shooting the film. Editing, I admit, is the hardest part, and the editing is ongoing. But…

by Brett Manero This summer, I spent a couple of days in northern Virginia and Washington, DC, visiting the area I used to call home. There are two places in DC which I never been to before – Mt. Vernon, the home and burial place of George Washington, and the Bible Museum. During my years…

by Brett Manero My fiancee and I recently re-watched a film that we originally saw earlier this summer. Pressure tells the familiar story of D-Day, Operation Overlord – the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied France – albeit from a new perspective. Many people are at least vaguely familiar with D-Day: the largest amphibious invasion in history,…

by Brett Manero Today in the Latin Church is the Feast of the Transfiguration, when Jesus Christ manifested His divine reality to three of His Apostles. The Synoptic Gospels – Matthew, Mark, and Luke – record the incredible event. The Gospel of John characteristically does not record, and understandably so. John omits certain events and…

by Brett Manero Today is July 4, 2026, exactly 250 years since the Thirteen British Colonies formally declared their independence from the British Empire. The world has never been the same since that fateful day. Some years ago, out of curiosity, I googled something along the lines of: “the most influential nations in history.” An…

by Brett Manero King Charles III of the United Kingdom spoke to the United States Congress yesterday, April 28, 2026. This was the second time the British sovereign spoke to the American Congress, after Queen Elizabeth II spoke there in 1991. It seems that the vast majority of Americans thought highly favorably of the King’s…

by Brett Manero This past February, my friend Ben and I made the trek to Florida from Denver, where we biked the coat to coast trail, which connects the east coast of Florida near Cape Canaveral to St. Petersburg, just west of Tampa. And what a trip! Not always the most easy one, but a…

by Brett Manero Something which has weighed on my mind for many months is this: we have forgotten about justice. We in the Catholic world have neglected what is so important to our faith and to a healthy society: justice. Without justice, there is no mercy. And mercy is the center and core of our…