FROM THE FIELD: THOM NICKELS

My weekly columns and features on a wide variety of topics.

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

The Worm-Filled Vatican Synodal Church

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The Catholic Church has had the great misfortune of having elected two modern popes who identify with Latin America. Francis, who was Itali...
Friday, January 9, 2026

The Trouble with Leftist Female Reporters (Frontpage) Thom Nickels

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Legacy media news outlets have been having a field day with President Trump’s “relationship” with certain female reporters. From CNN, MSNBC,...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

TRUMP'S COMMENTS ON ROB REINER'S DEATH

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The fallout over President Trump’s comments on the death of Rob Reiner can be compared to one of those atomic bomb mushroom clouds in Japane...

Saint Michael the Archangel Russian Orthodox Church, Philadelphia

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A parishoner of St. Michael's for some 40 years shares her thoughts with me about the parish: As long as our church focuses on somethi...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

Ileana of Romania: Princess, Exilt and Mother Superior. May 30, 2026

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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Foreign-born new neighbors send up hostile flares. Are they Somalies?

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Private driveway or condo drive-thru? The condo unit at 2600 Albert Street in Old Richmond (Philadelphia) has been up and running for sev...
Monday, December 1, 2025

LIPSTICK ON WOKE: NANCY PELOSI

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Emerita Nancy Pelosi’s retirement marks the end of a stunning career, complete with a million photo ops that show her in 4-inch stilettos wh...
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Thom Nickels
I am a Philadelphia-based author/journalist, the author of nine published books, including: The Cliffs of Aries (1988), Two Novellas: Walking Water & After All This (1989), The Boy on the Bicycle (1991-1994), Manayunk (1997), Gay and Lesbian Philadelphia (2000), Tropic of Libra (2002), Out in History and Philadelphia Architecture (2005)and SPORE (2010). In 1990, Two Novellas was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and a Hugo Award. Winner of the 2005 Philadelphia AIA Lewis Mumford Two Novellas rewritten and retitled for Starbooks Press: Walking on Water & After All This, available as an e-book. Winner of the Philadelphia AIA 2005 Lewis Mumford Award for Architectural Journalism. I am currently the City Beat editor at ICON Magazine, a contributing editor/writer at The Weekly Press, and a weekly columnist (The Local Lens) for Philadelphia’s SPIRIT Community Newspapers. I am the Religion Editor for the Lambda Book Report, and have written for Philadelphia's Broad Street Review, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News. www.tnickels.net
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