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St. Michael’s City, Europe’s Capital
BY John H. Carroll Brussels, Belgium, home to a glorious and historic cathedral
October 21-27, 2001 Issue 
In recent years Brussels, once considered by diplomats and travelers as the somewhat provincial capital of a small kingdom, has emerged as the glamorous international center of the European Union and the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
With their deep sense of history, the... READ MORE
St. ThÈrËse, Little and Powerful, Pray for Us
BY Regina Marshall
September 30 - October 6, 2001 Issue
In one of the littlest towns, in the littlest state, stands America's first shrine to the saint known as the “Little Flower of Jesus.”
The Little Flower, of course, is St. Thérèse of Lisieux—newest Doctor of the Church. The shrine, in Nasonville, R.I., will be a wonderful place to pray on Oct. 1,... READ MORE
The Beach, the Basilica and the Blessed Mother
BY Elena Dwyer Basilica of Our Lady of Good Air, Cagliari, Sardinia
September 16-22, 2001 Issue
On the Italian island of Sardinia, on a hill overlooking the Gulf of Cagliari, sits the splendid 14th-century Basilica di Nostra Signora di Bonaria—the Basilica of Our Lady of Good Air.
The basilica got its name when the Blessed Mother was credited for restoring clean, healthy air to the area after... READ MORE
Ageless in Florida: America’s Oldest Parish
BY Joseph Pronechen Cathedral-Basilica of St. Augustine, Fla.
August 26 - September 1, 2001 Issue
On Florida's east coast, the Cathedral-Basilica of St. Augustine occupies a place of honor in the heart of America's oldest city.
The church, easily recognized by its handsome Spanish Renaissance architecture, is the most striking feature in a downtown plaza that has many eye-catching sights.
What... READ MORE
Soul-Reader in the Big Easy
BY Regina Marshall New Orleans' National Shrine of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos
August 19-25, 2001 Issue
When Bishop Thomas J. Rodi of Biloxi, Miss., visited Jessie Arbogast in the hospital July 14, he blessed the 8-year-old with a relic of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos.
The nation knows Jessie as the victim of a terrible shark attack earlier this summer in Pensacola, Fla. — one in which his arm was... READ MORE
Texas Gothic
BY Lorraine Williams St. Mary's Cathedral, Austin, Texas
August 12-18, 2001 Issue
In the retail world, “location is everything.”
How many Texas businesses have envied the locale enjoyed by Austin's magnificent St. Mary's Cathedral?
Situated in the heart of downtown, it's visible from the state's capitol building, a continuing reminder to legislators of the spiritual dimensions... READ MORE
Bones of St. Peter’s Brother
BY Barbara Coeyman Hults Amalfi, Italy -- St. Andrew's final resting place
August 05-11, 2001 Issue
At Pentecost last year I found myself at the Marina Riviera, a small hotel in Amalfi, an hour south of Naples in southern Italy, relaxing after an arduous press trip (honestly).
I looked out to sea during that afternoon and thought I was seeing a vision or having a hallucination.
Coming toward me,... READ MORE
‘A Turning-Point of History’
July 22 - 28, 2001 Issue
Pope John Paul II expressed his devotion to the Black Madonna in August, 1991. Speaking extemporaneously in his first general audience after returning from the sixth World Youth Day—at Jasna Góra in Czestochowa, Poland, where he prayed before the original image—he recalled the 1 million... READ MORE
Apple of the Augustinians’ Eye
BY Barbara Coeyman Hults Rome's Church of Saint Augustine
July 1-7,2001 Issue
One soft spring night in Rome many years ago, I heard about a concert to be given at the church of San Agostino.
I'd never seen the church, although I'd been to the nearby Piazza Navona. When I climbed the steps to the plain facade and entered, another Roman marvel spread out before me. It's a spot... READ MORE
A Basilica Grows in Brooklyn
BY Joseph Pronechen The Redemptorists'Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
June 24-30, 2001 Issue
Brooklyn's Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help commands a fair portion of an entire city block.
As well it should: It's the flagship church of the Redemptorists in New York.
It heads a fleet of related buildings including the parish's rectory, school and convent covering the
remainder of the... READ MORE
In Huntington Beach, Evidence of Things Hoped For
BY Elisabeth Deffner The Shroud Center of Southern California
June 17-23, 2001 Issue
Atheists and agnostics surround me.
They pop up at unexpected moments, tempering their doubt and disbelief with a generous dollop of pity for the naïve believer. Secure in my faith, I reciprocate, feeling a touch of sorrow, a twinge of incomprehension. How can a person not believe? I don't get it.
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In the Footsteps of Blessed Junipero
BY Anne Carrington Mchugh A pilgrim returns to the place that launched her conversion
June 3-9, 2001 Issue
I first visited Mission Santa Clara de Asis many years ago, on the kind of beautiful, sunny day that is typical for late spring in California.
It was a school field trip, and I was in the eighth grade, the daughter of devout and devoted Protestant parents. They had given me a deep, abiding faith in... READ MORE
Mysteries of Santa Fe
BY Lorraine M. Williams The silence and wonder of the nation's oldest capital
May 27-June 2, 2001 Issue
If you're planning to visit Santa Fe, be sure to take along a copy of Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop.
It's the best preparation you could have to understand the silences and simplicity of the Southwestern desert.
Cather tells the tale of Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph... READ MORE
A Heavenly Hospital of a Shrine
BY Mary Soltis National Shrine of St. Dymphna, Massillon, Ohio
May 6-12, 2001 Issue
The grounds of a psychiatric hospital may seem an unlikely site for a pilgrimage, but the National Shrine of St. Dymphna is right at home sharing space with Ohio's Massillon State Hospital.
Nor is the shrine's placement here an accident: The Irish-born princess who was murdered at the hands of her... READ MORE
Mysteries of Santa Fe
BY Lorraine M. Williams The silence and wonder of the nation's oldest capital
April 29-May 5, 2001 Issue
If you're planning to visit Santa Fe, be sure to take along a copy of Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop.
It's the best preparation you could have to understand the silences and simplicity of the Southwestern desert.
Cather tells the tale of Bishop Jean Latour and Father Joseph... READ MORE
Easter Epicenter
BY Louise Perrotta Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher
April 15-21, 2001 Issue
Surprises are in store for the first-time pilgrim to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, which sits deep in Jerusalem's Old City.
For starters, its modest courtyard is hemmed in by a jumble of buildings and towered over by a Muslim minaret.
Many first-time visitors to the church are also startled to... READ MORE
Angels Over Alabama
BY Tim Drake The Blessed Sacrament shrine in the Heart of Dixie
April 08-14, 2001 Issue
Seven round satellite dishes on the lawn at EWTN's studios in Irondale, Ala., face the heavens — conduits between a vibrant Catholic ministry and the world.
An hour's drive north, in Hanceville, another circular “bridge” between heaven and earth lifts visitors' hearts higher still.
Situated in a... READ MORE
Have Sacraments - Will Travel
BY Joseph Pronechen Stories of souls touched by the airport priest
March 25-31, 2001 Issue
Congregations on the move are Father John Jamnicky's specialty.
For 18 years, as chaplain at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, he welcomed thousands of travelers to Mass, confession and prayer in the airport chapel — and counseling wherever they happened to be when they needed it.
Now he's... READ MORE
Catholic Globetrotter
BY Tim Drake
March 18-24, 2001 Issue
Having backpacked his way across 18 countries and led guided tours to Europe and the Holy Land, Kevin Wright is now a frequent contributor to Catholic radio, television and periodicals (including the Register).
He's also written three pilgrim guidebooks — Catholic Shrines of Western Europe,... READ MORE
St. Jude by the Chesapeake
BY Regina Marshall
KEYWORDS: Traveler Baltimore's Tribute to Saint of Lost Causes
February 18-24,2001 Issue
The Shrine of St. Jude, located in downtown Baltimore, stands as a fitting American tribute to the popular apostle who has come to be known as the “saint of last resort or impossible cases.”
The shrine was originally built as a Baptist church more than 150 years ago. As the Baptist population... READ MORE
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