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The Higher the Horse, the Greater the Grace
BY Lorraine Murray On the Jan. 25 feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, Lorraine Murray will think back on how God has occasionally had to knock her off her own high horse.
January 21-27, 2007 Issue 
God sometimes does dramatic things
to get our attention. Maybe we come down with some strange illness out of the
blue. Or lose our job. For Saul of Tarsus, the drama involved being blinded for
three days.
Saul was known for wreaking havoc on
the early Christian Church, arresting Christians and... READ MORE
There’ll Always Be a Catholic England
BY Joanna Bogle Church of the Holy Name of Jesus
January 21-27, 2007 Issue
Manchester, England
England is famous for its glorious medieval
churches, their spires soaring above villages or making landmarks in the great
cities. But of course these churches are not Catholic and, although they have
been cherished and loved in recent centuries, they have not been homes for... READ MORE
The Glories of a Gulf Coast Cathedral
BY KATY CARL Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception
January 14-20, 2007 Issue
Mobile, Ala.,
spent its early history shuffling between French and Spanish hands. It was the
early 1700s, and the Catholic faith was still finding a foothold in the Americas.
Yet the city today is every bit as saturated in
Catholic influence as more famous Catholic cities in the Bible Belt, such... READ MORE
America’s Oldest Cathedral, New Again
BY NICK MANETTO Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption
January 7-13, 2007 Issue
In a word: light.
That’s what distinguishes this U.S. Catholic landmark now. The last time my
(now-) wife and I visited the Baltimore Basilica — officially, the Basilica of
the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary — we were
greeted by a building in major need of... READ MORE
Where the Beloved Disciple Finally Rested
BY ANGELO STAGNARO Tomb of St. John the Evangelist, near Selçuk, Turkey
December 24- January 6, 2006 Issue
Having prayed at the House of Mary Shrine in Ephesus,
Turkey — at which Pope
Benedict would make a historic stop a year and a half later — I decided to set
my sights on the nearby ruins of St.
John’s tomb.
After all, the evangelist who
lived with Mary in her later years was also the only... READ MORE
O Holy Hill, the Basilica is Brightly Shining
BY EDDIE O’NEILL National Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians, Erin, Wis.
December 17-23, 2006 Issue
On a snowy winter’s
day in southeastern Wisconsin, the
Holy Hill of Hubertus — formally named the Basilica of Holy Hill, National
Shrine of Mary, Help of Christians — looks like a scene straight out of a
Christmas card.
A grand, majestic church towers
from the top of a mountain that rises... READ MORE
Desert Dust Couldn’t Keep It Down
BY LYNANNE LASOTA Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Queen Creek, Ariz.
December 10-16, 2006 Issue
Much as Juan Diego waited and waited to show Bishop Juan Zumárraga the sign he’d received from Mary in 1531, the
people of Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission in Queen Creek, Ariz.,
waited 60 years for the bishop to make their spiritual home a parish.
The elevation was largely a matter
of the... READ MORE
Kentucky Women
BY MEL HOWARD St. Joseph Monastery, Whitesville, Ky.
December 3-9, 2006 Issue
To enter the environs of St. Joseph Monastery in
northwest Kentucky
is to walk on holy ground.
A peace
that transcends all understanding pervades the property. It’s so palpable that
it draws deer, wild turkey, ducks, geese, butterflies — and an increasing
number of retreatants, who make their... READ MORE
Turkish Delight
BY ANGELO STAGNARO House of Mary Shrine, Ephesus, Turkey
November 26-December 2, 2006 Issue
After lecturing in
the city of Izmir, Turkey, I hoped to see a few of the holy places
in what had been Asia Minor.
I wanted to make sure I saw the
House of Mary Shrine in Ephesus
— or Meryem Ana Evi, as
it’s known in Turkish. Tradition teaches that St. John the Evangelist, heeding the... READ MORE
Cornhusker Symphony in Stone
BY MELANIE RADZICKI McMANUS St. Cecilia Cathedral, Omaha, Nebraska
November 19-25, 2006 Issue
When I mentioned
I’d be heading to Omaha, people kept urging me
to visit the Holy Family Shrine in nearby Gretna,
Neb.
This features an unusual chapel
built a few years ago. My schedule didn’t allow me to stray far from downtown Omaha, however, so a
visit to the shrine wasn’t an option.
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Atlantic Breezes and Papal Air
BY RAYMOND T. CORDANI Basilica of St. Paul, Daytona Beach, Fla.
November 12-18, 2006 Issue
The Very Rev.
Robert Webster, first rector of the Basilica of St. Paul, cut across the parish
to the sacristy to vest, a breviary tucked beneath his arm. It was the feast of
St. Augustine and the parish was celebrating an
all-school Mass.
Inside the basilica, the organ
rocked to life and the... READ MORE
Magnificent Mother of the Missions
BY TIM DRAKE Mission San Diego de Alcalá, San Diego, California
November 5-11, 2006 Issue
A couple of years
ago, during our first family visit to San
Diego, we had to decide where to attend Sunday Mass.
Given that this might be our only trip to the southernmost city in southern California, we thought
it would be good to receive Communion in one of the region’s historic missions.
But... READ MORE
Map of Ages in the Middle East
BY JOSEPH ALBINO St. George Greek Orthodox Church, Madaba, Jordan
October 29-November 4, 2006 Issue
St. George Greek
Orthodox Church of Madaba, Jordan, is famous
throughout the Middle East for the floor of
its sanctuary. On it is displayed a sixth-century map of the Holy
Land.
This might not be remarkable
except that the map is no replica. It’s a mosaic dating to — when else? — the sixth... READ MORE
The Long and Winding Road to Emmaus
BY ANGELO STAGNARO A prayed-for European pilgrimage comes to pass
October 22-28, 2006 Issue
Not long ago, I found myself relating to Dante. Like him, I reached a point “midway upon the
journey of my life, in a forest dark, savage, rough and stern; my
straightforward pathway had been lost.”
Anxious for new
beginnings in my efforts to “seek first the kingdom of God and... READ MORE
100 Years of Quietude
BY EDDIE O’NEILL St. Paul Cathedral, Pittsburgh
October 15-21, 2006 Issue
In his second
letter to the Church in Corinth, St. Paul opens with
encouraging words.
He reminds the Corinthian
believers that God “encourages us in our every affliction, so that we may be
able to encourage those who are in any affliction with the encouragement with
which we ourselves are... READ MORE
Mother’s Milk for the Soul
BY TIM DRAKE
June 4-10, 2006 Issue
We have six
children (five here, one in heaven) — and none of them has come to us without a
struggle.
In fact, the birth of our son
Peter, now 3, caused my wife, Mary, to develop a thyroid condition that has
made it impossible for us to conceive and sustain another pregnancy.
The pain of... READ MORE
One Way or Another, the Blessed Mother Gets Heard
BY MELANIE RADZICKI McMANUS National Shrine of Mary, Mother of the Church, Laurie, Mo.
October 8-14, 2006 Issue
I didn’t know what to make of the
image that popped up on my computer monitor: a 14-foot, stainless steel
sculpture of Mary, arms outstretched, standing atop a shoebox-shaped waterfall.
The rotating, modernistic statue
seemed an odd centerpiece for a shrine, although the waterfall and... READ MORE
A Hospitable High Point in The Big Easy
BY LORRAINE WILLIAMS Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos Center, New Orleans
October 1-7, 2006 Issue
One year ago, the Gulf Coast
was in a state of shock. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita had come and gone, leaving
in their wake a trail of devastation and displacement that, for many, continues
to this day.
Having visited New Orleans’ Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos Center several months before the... READ MORE
Priest of the Poor and So Much More
BY BARBARA COEYMAN HULTS Vincentian Motherhouse, Paris
September 24-30, 2006 Issue
The concept of
charity and the name St. Vincent de Paul are forever linked. Yet St. Vincent’s charity went further than feeding the poor.
He lived, after all, in
pre-Revolutionary France
(1580-1660), when Europe was essentially a
two-class society. Country folk lacked an educated clergy while... READ MORE
Catholic Connections in the English Countryside
BY JOANNA BOGLE Ufton Court, Berkshire, England
September 17-23, 2006 Issue
I visited Ufton Court on
a beautiful summer evening when children in Tudor costume were walking solemnly
through its gardens on their way to a banquet in the Tithe Barn. It was the
perfect way to view this old English manor house, with its four priest holes
and hidden chapel.
My visit was not... READ MORE
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