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‘All Things Catholic’

BY Annemarie Muth

St. Martin of Tours Started Its Revival in the Early Days After Vatican II

November 8-14, 2009 Issue

St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church of Louisville, Ky., offers so much in terms of historical significance, an orthodox faith community, and sheer physical beauty. My friend Sue said it best, shortly after my husband, Ken, and I moved to the parish: “This is the center of all things... READ MORE


Polish Treasure

BY Angelo Stagnaro

Black Madonna Points to Her Son at Jasna Góra Monastery

November 1-7, 2009 Issue

There were very few stops on my pilgrimage more anticipated than seeing the Black Madonna of Czestochowa (Polish: Matka Boska Czestochowska).

Legend attributes the icon to St. Luke the Evangelist, who supposedly painted it on a plank of cypress wood from a table top from the house of the Holy... READ MORE


The Actors’ Chapel

BY Angelo Stagnaro

St. Malachy’s Serves the Theatre District Near Times Square

October 25-31, 2009 Issue

There aren’t many churches in Christendom where the person sitting next to you is likely a star of stage, screen or television.

St. Malachy’s Church, located on 49th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, founded in 1902, is a little jewel box of a church and an essential and important... READ MORE


God’s Country

BY F. Douglas Kneibert

Mountains Are a Place to Feel a Touch of the Divine

October 18-24, 2009 Issue

If you want to get close to God, you can’t beat the mountains.What is it about mountains that seem to connect us with the divine? For one thing, they reach to the heavens. We admire their rugged beauty and massive size, but there is also an air of mystery and fear associated with them.

In the... READ MORE


Hudson Highland

BY Angelo Stagnaro

Most Holy Trinity Catholic Chapel at the U.S. Military Academy

October 11-17, 2009 Issue

Ever since Henry Hudson discovered the river that bears his name 400 years ago, the Hudson has generally been a peaceful stream.

Not so during the Revolutionary War. If the British had gained control of the Hudson, the Americans might have lost a vital means to transport troops and supplies —... READ MORE


Port of Call

BY Melanie Radzicki McManus

Holy Rosary Cathedral May Look Ordinary, but It Holds Treasures

October 4-10, 2009 Issue

Slowly but steadily, the weathered Gothic cathedral on the corner of Richards and Dunsmuir Streets began to fill.

People — mainly tourists — initially stopped in for a quick prayer or to take photos. Vancouver is a large cruise ship port, with nearly 1 million passengers sailing from its... READ MORE


The Russians Are Here

BY Angelo Stagnaro

St. Michael’s Russian Catholic Chapel Preserves Ancient Traditions

September 27-October 3, 2009 Issue

At the junctures of Manhattan’s Little Italy, Chinatown and Soho is a tiny jewel box of a chapel that many people would mistake for an Orthodox church.

In actuality, St. Michael’s Russian Catholic Chapel is a community very much in union with Rome.

Named for one of the three archangels whose... READ MORE


Planned and Unplanned Visits

BY Angelo Stagnaro

Pope Will Honor the Infant of Prague in the Church of Our Lady Victorious

September 20-26, 2009 Issue

Whenever I visit the homes of Catholics with a devotion to the Infant of Prague, my thoughts go back to my sainted grandmother.

She had a great devotion to the Infant of Prague and spent many hours sewing and embroidering beautiful gowns for the statue in her bedroom.

“The more you honor me,... READ MORE


Sorrowful Mother, Joyful Children

BY Father Matthew Gamber, S.J.

Shrine Basilica Has Been Place of Refuge for 135 Years

September 13-19, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

When I told my father that I was going to visit and write about the Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows on Chicago’s West Side, he told me about his aunt Esther.

Every Friday during World War II the devout Catholic mother took a street car, commuter train and two buses from the suburbs to the city to... READ MORE


An American Pilgrimage

BY Thomas Lombardi

Remembering a Catholic Hero of 9/11

September 6-12, 2009 Issue

Somerset County, Pa., literally crashed into world history on Sept. 11, 2001. On that memorable day, Muslim jihadists flew four commercial aircraft into American targets. United Airlines Flight 93, scheduled to travel from Newark, N.J., to San Francisco, crashed into a farming community near the... READ MORE


Oxford Movement

BY Joanna Bogle

Soon-to-be-Beatified Newman Dreamed of an Oratory in This University Town

August 23-September 5, 2009 Issue

It had always been John Henry Newman’s dream to establish an oratory in Oxford. The Oratorians are a religious order founded by St. Philip Neri in Rome in the 16th century; the order was established in Britain by Newman in the 19th century.

When he became a Catholic in 1845, Newman was living in... READ MORE


North Country Glory

BY Joseph Albino

Assumption Church Is Oldest Conventual Franciscan Church in U.S.

August 9-22, 2009 Issue

Assumption Church, on the north side of Syracuse, N.Y., is the foundation church of the Conventual Franciscan Friars in the United States.

The roots of the parish date to 1843, when 24 German-speaking Catholic families settled in central New York.

A German-speaking rector of a seminary in northern... READ MORE


St. Anne’s Summer Place

BY John M. Grondelski

Shrine on Lake Champlain Convergence of Canadian and American History

July 26-August 8, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

The breezes of a late summer afternoon blew across Lake Champlain as I drove to the Shrine of St. Anne, nestled on Isle la Motte in the far northwestern corner of Vermont. The Canadian border lies maybe 10 miles away. On that particular day, the handful of pilgrims blended with the summer tourists... READ MORE


Place of Light

BY Joseph Albino

Shrine of St. Odilia Offers Healing for the Blind and Afflicted

July 12-25, 2009 Issue

While visiting Voyageurs National Park in the northern part of Minnesota, I made it a point on the way to visit the Shrine of St. Odilia in Onamia, Minn.

The shrine is run by the Crosier Fathers. Several members of the order settled in the Onamia area after traveling from Holland in 1910 with a... READ MORE


Heart of the Church

BY Barbara Coeyman Hults

St. Peter in Words and Stone

June 28-July 11, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

One warm summer day many years ago, I saw St. Peter’s and its piazza for the first time. I was, of course, overwhelmed at its grandeur and enormity.

Yet something was not right. Where was Peter in all this? I knew he was the first pope, but how did that relate to this vast complex of columns and... READ MORE


Stolen and Recovered

BY Joseph Albino

Place of Devotion: After Being Stolen and Hidden, the Icon of Perpetual Help Rests in a Redemptorist Church

June 21-27, 2009 Issue

According to legend, a Roman merchant of the late 15th century who traded on the island of Crete stole a miraculous icon from one of the churches there and brought it back to his home.

On his deathbed, the merchant gave the icon to a friend and asked him to donate it to a local church. However,... READ MORE


Merciful Heart

BY Angelo Stagnaro

The Basilica of Sacré-Coeur Towers Over the Site of Martyrdom

June 14-20, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

When God comes to earth again, I believe he would, in a spare moment, rest with us on the steps of Sacré-Coeur Basilica. And there, together, we would look out upon Paris, and we would come to know the depth of his love for us.

It took a few minutes to climb the steep steps up Montmartre... READ MORE


Testaments to Faith

BY Angelo Stagnaro

Beijing’s Nan Tang: Focal Point of Matteo Ricci's Fourth Centennial

June 7-13, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

There are a lot of things to see in Beijing, but what fascinated me the most was how the Catholic Church was treated here, behind the tattered remains of the Bamboo Curtain.

South Cathedral (Nan Tang), also known as the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, was built near the home of Father... READ MORE


Testaments to Faith

BY Melanie Radzicki McManus

When Visiting the Emerald Isle, Don't Miss 2 of Dublin's Prime Sites

May 31-June 6, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

Even though a damp, gray drizzle fell from the sky, the line to see Trinity College's famous Book of Kells stretched out the door and onto the slick pavement. Luckily, the line moved quickly. I was soon inside the library of Dublin, Ireland's famed college. Although I'd only recently learned about... READ MORE


Mary, Help of Christians at the Southern Tip of America

BY Joseph Albino

The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Our Lady of Mercy

May 24-30, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

Ferdinand Magellan was the Portuguese explorer, working for Spain, who found a channel from the Atlantic Ocean through the southern tip of South America.

Magellan's fleet of five small ships arrived in the fall of 1520 in what is today Chile. A group of Franciscan missionaries who accompanied him... READ MORE


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