RMDell'Orfano

The Beast Within

My father’s hand had steered me toward truth, but no strap could ward off what awaited me in adolescence. Now the enemy was not dishonesty—it was my body itself, turning strange, unpredictable, and frightening.

The Mockery of Freedom

America has turned violence into a sacred ritual—worshiping war, guns, and destruction while calling it freedom. A haunting reflection on our national soul.

Birth Rate Zero

From pesticides to plastic hormones, technological progress has poisoned its own promise. An 83-year-old witness reflects on how chemical corruption and moral decay now blur nature’s design—and what families can still do to resist.

ISLAM: Five Times a Day

While Europe’s cathedrals echo with tourists, Islam’s five daily prayers fill its mosques with living faith—a quiet triumph of devotion over decline.

The Lagoon,Leeches, and the Law

Two brothers defy a No Swimming sign, plunging into a hidden lagoon—and into a lesson about fear, folly, and the leeches that never let go.

Rabies of the Soul

When Political Outrage Becomes a Reckless Religion

Our Cornered-Cat Generation

Antifa’s rage isn’t about ideology — it’s about alienation and inequality. Richard M. Dell’Orfano recalls his penniless pilgrimage and the inner revolution that heals it.

Finding True Freedom

We are left to fight our battles alone, in the quiet corners of ordinary lives, yearning for a freedom we cannot quite locate or achieve.

Death and Deportation

Pope Leo XIV has declared that the deportation of illegal immigrants and the death penalty are inhuman.

The Masquerade of Life

All the world’s a masquerade, where one man in his time plays many parts, and I had learned how to slip past its stopgates unnoticed.