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Simple Parish Church, Rock Solid Witness
BY Joseph Pronechen
April 7-13, 2002 Issue 
Most Holy Trinity Church, Wallingford, Conn.
Being a Catholic travel writer, I like to be surprised by ordinary parish churches that have some special attractiveness, history or beauty.
Sometimes those kinds of discoveries are even more exhilarating than the thrill I get walking into a grand... READ MORE
Boys and Girls’ Saints
BY April Hoopes Spirit & Life
April 7-13, 2002 Issue
Ah! Easter is here at last. Or here again …
April 7 is Easter Sunday, too. The priest at Mass all week says “on this Easter Day” before the eucharistic prayer, and this Sunday is Easter Sunday 2. Give your family a second Easter celebration! A nice meal, some more candy … See page one for the other... READ MORE
The Barnabites and the Blessed Mother
BY Joseph Albino Basilica Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima, Lewiston, N.Y
March 24-30, 2002 Issue
In the early 1950s, the Barnabite Fathers, newly arrived from Italy, were looking for property in western New York. They wanted to build a seminary.
As it happened, a Niagara Falls couple, Walter and Helen Ciurczak, had recently pledged to give a portion of their farm to a religious institution... READ MORE
Holy Week’s Call to Holiness Never Seemed So Timely
BY Brian Caulfield Spirit & Life
March 24-30, 2002 Issue
You overslept. The baby's sick. The covers are hugging too closely. We all have impediments to praying in the morning. Yet how we rise sets the tone and direction of the day. Well begun is the morning won.
Ideally, we should wake with a prayer on our lips and thoughts raised to God. We've all heard... READ MORE
Prayerfully Yours: Paris in the Spring
BY John M. Grondelski Finding sanctity and serenity along the Seine
March 10-16, 2002 Issue
Nearly a century ago, the French Catholic poet Charles Péguy imagined what God might think of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral.
“God says: I have seen ... the churches which are my own houses,” he wrote. “And Paris and Rheims and Rouen and the cathedrals which are my own palaces and my own castles. So... READ MORE
Roses on Ice
BY Jim Fair Spirit & Life
March 10-16, 2002 Issue
Dear Adrienne,
Do you remember St. Thérèse from the 1998 Winter Olympics?
No, the saint didn't skate. But that was when we watched Tara Lapinski winning a gold medal and thanking the Little Flower for it.
Now, four years later, the skater still credits the saint. And she attributes another thing to... READ MORE
‘Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Pray for Boston’
BY Joseph Pronechen
March 3-9, 2002 Issue
In my travels for the Register, I've visited scores of churches, shrines and pilgrimage sites.
All have left their mark on me, but when I came to this one, just two miles from downtown Boston, I was so in awe I couldn't help but drop to my knees.
Maybe the timing had a little something to do with... READ MORE
Marching to Easter
BY April Hoopes Spirit & Life
March 3-9, 2002 Issue
It's hard to believe, but March this year is the month not just of St. Patrick's Day, but also of Holy Week and Easter.
Normally, a column like this, about liturgical celebrations in March, would dwell on Perpetua and Felicity — virgin martyrs who landed a spot in the First Eucharistic prayer. It... READ MORE
A Heroine From a Time of Terror
BY Debbie Nowak St. Margaret Clitherow's humble shrine in york, England
February 10-16, 2002 Issue
We had come to York for a day of sightseeing, unaware that our excursion was to become a pilgrimage.
We decided to pay a brief visit to St. Wilfrid's Catholic Church, next door to the well-known York Minster. Inside St. Wilfrid's was a statue of the “Pearl of York,” St. Margaret Clitherow, who was... READ MORE
Philadelphia’s Pristine Chapel
Mary's Central Shrine is a Germantown jewel
February 03-09, 2002 Issue
The Central Association of the Miraculous Medal in the Germantown section of Philadelphia— “Mary's Central Shrine,” as it's known — opened on Sept. 27, 1927.
Pilgrims have been arriving here, at the site of St. Vincent's Seminary (built in the 1870s) ever since.
The faithful who come here to pray... READ MORE
Lebanese Light in Northeast Ohio
BY Joseph Pronechen National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon, North Jackson, Ohio
January 20-26, 2002 Issue
When a statue of the Virgin Mary was being lifted into place at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon on July 20, 1965, the crowd present for the ceremony experienced a special moment of grace.
As the enormous stone image came to rest atop a 50-foot tower, a cloud above turned “brilliant... READ MORE
Spirit of Cincinnati
BY Lorraine Williams
January 13-19, 2002 Issue
Cincinnati draws many tourists, few of whom come here looking for churches.
The many don't know what they're missing.
This Ohio city, together with its next-door neighbor, Covington, Ky., is home to nearly 250 churches. Many house beautiful collections of liturgical art and priceless pieces of... READ MORE
Our Lady’s Lodgings in Jolly Olde England
BY Debbie Nowak Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, Norfolk, East Anglia
January 6-12, 2002 Issue
The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, in Norfolk, East Anglia, is the National Shrine of Our Lady in England.
It has been a place of pilgrimage since 1061 and had been considered one of the four most important pilgrimage sites in the Middle Ages, on a par with Rome, Jerusalem and Santiago de... READ MORE
So Many Calvaries, So Little Fear of Death
BY John M. Grondelski The parish closes of Brittany, France
December 16-22, 2002 Issue
Passion is a word associated with France: be it love, cooking, art or sometimes even religion, France does it with passion.
One place where Our Lord's Passion is passionately depicted is Brittany, that peninsula in western France jutting into the Atlantic.
A spirituality devoted to Christ's Passion... READ MORE
Juan Diego’s Keystone-State Satellite
BY Joseph Pronechen National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Allentown, Pa.
December 9-15, 2001 Issue
Because the town of Nazareth is nearby and the small city of Bethlehem is next-door, Allentown, Pa., seems a natural location for the National Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas.
It will also be a natural place to visit Dec. 12, feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
In 1974, the... READ MORE
Hard by the Hudson, a Historic Marian Manor
BY Joseph Pronechen
December 2-8, 2001 Issue
Since its dedication in November 1852, the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany, N.Y. has been a landmark for the city and for the diocese.
Today, its renown spans the continent. This was the first cathedral in the United States dedicated to Mary under her title of the Immaculate... READ MORE
Medieval Magnificence in the Midi Pyrenees
BY Geoffrey B. Gneuhs The abbey church of St. Foy at Conques, France
November 25-December 1, 2001 Issue
Charlemagne is credited with the founding of 20 abbeys in France, and the one at Conques was his favorite.
Situated in the Midi Pyrenees region of France, the abbey church of St. Foy in the center of the tiny village of Conques sits as if carved out of the mountains that are cut through by the Lot,... READ MORE
Assisi, Put Back Together Again
BY Maryanne Hannan Earthquake a fading memory in Francis' and Clare's hometown
November 18-24, 2001 Issue
“All praise be yours, my Lord, through our Sister Mother Earth, who sustains us and governs us, and produces varied fruits with colored flowers and herbs.”
So wrote St. Francis of Assisi, from his deathbed, in the ecstatic poem “Canticle of the Creatures.” Nearly 800 years later, “Mother Earth”... READ MORE
Where Couples Pray for Conception
BY Joseph Pronechen National Shrine of St. Gerard Majella, Newark, N.J.
November 11-17, 2001 Issue
To paraphrase the prophet Isaiah: God's timing isn't always our timing.
Take St. Gerard Majella. To be sure, he was known as a “wonder worker” in his 18th-century Italy. But it has been in recent decades that his intercession has been sought out most fervently all around the world.
I learned much... READ MORE
Polish Heart on the Erie Canal
BY Joseph Albino Sacred Heart Basilica, Syracuse, N.Y.
October 28 - November 3, 2001 Issue
Soon after masses of Polish immigrants began settling in upstate New York in the 1880s, they built a big, beautiful church on the west side of Syracuse.
More than a century later, just in time for the 2000 jubilee, the work of their hands — Sacred Heart Church — was designated a basilica.
By... READ MORE
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