Faith, Travel, and the Call to Walk in Christ's Footsteps
The Messages and Requests of Fatima Revisited
I was 9 years old when I checked out a storybook from my Catholic school’s library about the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima to...
The Holy Rosary: A Beloved October Devotion
The traditional Catholic dedication for the month of October is to the Holy Rosary. This tradition dates back to the late 16th century after the...
A Humble, Most-Marian Month
What month has the most Marian feast days? Surely it’s May, the month of Mary. Or perhaps it’s October, the month of the Rosary? Surprisingly,...
A Family Pilgrimage
Each year at the Easter Vigil, we recall the pathway of salvation history through a series of seven Old Testament readings. The third reading is...
A Birthday Fit for a Queen
Yesterday, the world entered a period of mourning for the longest reigning English monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Her life and death have been marked with...
The Franciscan Crown Rosary
Twenty years ago this spring I traveled to Rome for Holy Week and Easter. I was studying abroad that year and before I left I...