Faith, Travel, and the Call to Walk in Christ's Footsteps
Top 10 Catholic Cities exude Faith in their history, landscape and cultures
(by Gretchen R. Crowe, OSV Newsweekly) Ready for some Catholic sightseeing? Based on culture, history, physical landscape and spirituality, the following list of Top 10 U.S. Catholic...
Watch the largest liturgical censer in the world fly at almost 44 mph!
(Aleteia) At the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, there is a very special liturgical censer—the largest in the world, in fact. It’s almost...
8 things that fit INSIDE St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome
By John White, CatholicVote.com – Next Saturday (June 29) will mark the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul. As the universal Church prepares to...
Lent Day 42 – Flowers in the Desert
We began these daily Lent reflections by noting how Lent takes us into a spiritual desert. Biblical people knew all about the desert: Abraham has...
Lent Day 11 – St. Thomas More and the Theo-drama
The late Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, whom I mentioned yesterday, often spoke of the “theo-drama.” This is the drama written and directed by...
St. John, the Beloved
As I reflected on today’s feast of St. John, and its placement in the Octave of Christmas, I was struck again by the delicate layers...