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Jude Turns Tears to Joy
Why the paths of the hopeless lead to San Francisco
August 22-28, 1999 Issue 
Liz Trotta, New York bureau chief for the Washington Times and maybe the first American woman to report the fighting from Vietnam, decided to apply her investigative skills to an unusual task for a modern-day journalist: to find out the truth about St. Jude. Retracing the apostle's steps in the... READ MORE
Ephesus, City of the Assumption
BY John Baker Jr.
August 15-21, 1999 Issue
On Mount Koressos, overlooking the ancient Greek city of Ephesus, stands the house of the Virgin Mary. Now part of Turkey, this is the place where it is believed our Lady spent her last days on earth.
The location was determined in 1891 through research done by Lazarian priests. They used... READ MORE
A Gem Amid the Spanish Mist
July 25-31, 1999 Issue
Loretta G. Seyer
Monasteries That Take in Travelers
BY Gerry Rauch
July 4-10, 1999 Issue
If you are interested in the more spiritual aspects of a pilgrimage to Italy, this may be the best travel book you could find.
The Guide to Lodging in Italy's Monasteries gives practical and religious information about hundreds of monasteries and convents, and their guest houses, where travelers... READ MORE
Where a U.S. Saint Started
BY Joseph Pronechen The National Shrine Of ST. Elizabeth Ann Seton
July 4-10, 1999 Issue
Yearly, more than 3 million people visit the Statue of Liberty. Just across the street from Battery Park, where they catch the ferry to Liberty Island, there is a landmark of U.S. Catholic history. It's the Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, first native-born American saint, located in the Church... READ MORE
The Popeís Prayer for the Great Jubilee
June 27 - July 03, 1999 Issue
Pope John Paul II wrote a different prayer for each of the three years of preparation for the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000.
He addressed the prayers to the three persons of the Trinity one after another depending on which year it was.
Now the Pope has written a prayer for the Church to use... READ MORE
Pilgrimage on a Hilltop
BY Joseph Pronechen The Shrine of St. Joseph
June 27 - July 03, 1999 Issue
A pilgrimage in Stirling, N.J., just 30 miles from New York City, the Shrine of St. Joseph describes itself as a place “where God, people and nature come together.”
Through every decade since it was founded in 1924, even as corporate America took over the farmlands in the vicinity, the hilltop... READ MORE
Shrines as ‘Witnesses of the Good News’
June 6-12, 1999 Issue
In a document dated May 8, the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People released a document titled “The Shrine”: Memory, Presence and Prophecy of the Living God. The Vatican presented this document as an aid to themany celebrations and events for the Jubilee of the... READ MORE
Visiting the Polish Jerusalem
BY Kevin Wright
June 6-12, 1999 Issue
As a boy living in nearby Wadowice, Karol Wojtyla often would come and spend time in prayer at the various chapels of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. Before he became Pope John Paul II, he would often visit the shrine as an archbishop and later as a cardinal.
Many times he came unannounced and walked the... READ MORE
City of the Immaculata
BY Kevin Wright St. Maximilian Kolbe's Niepokalanow
May 16-22, 1999 Issue
The story of St. Maximilian Kolbe and the surrender of his life for a fellow prisoner at Auschwitz is well-known. Less known is the friary and town established by him called Niepokalanow.
As a devout son of the Blessed Mother, he founded this priory in order to spread Marian devotion and defend the... READ MORE
A Treasury Takes N.Y.
BY Stephen Hopkins
April 25 - May 1, 1999 Issue
In New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Park Avenue heiresses, Soho grunge hippies and Japanese tourists are all enjoying the magnificent works of art created to honor St. Francis of Assisi.
One question they might wonder about is the paradox of a “Treasury of St. Francis,” the poverello. If... READ MORE
Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story
BY Loretta G. Seyer Videos on Release
April 18-24, 1999 Issue
Paulist Father Ellwood Kieser of Paulist Productions had long wanted to bring the life of Dorothy Day, a possible candidate for beatification, to the screen. Eventually, he oversaw the production of Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story. Starring Moira Kelly as Day and Martin Sheen as... READ MORE
A Village of Shrines
BY Joseph Pronechen Loretto, Pa., is celebrating its bicentennial
April 11-17, 1999 Issue
Over the years, the picturesque beauty and historic sites of the Allegheny Mountains in western Pennsylvania have proved popular to tourists. But tucked away within the mountains is another great attraction: a village of beautiful shrines.
After 200 years, Loretto is the home of several shrines,... READ MORE
GETTING THERE
March 28 - April 3, 1999 Issue
To reach Marytown in Libertyville, Ill., about 40 miles north of downtown Chicago:
By car: Exit Interstate 94 at Route 176 (Rockland Road). Turn west on 176 and go about 4 miles. Marytown is two blocks past Butterfield Road.
By train: From Union Station, take the Metro commuter train to either... READ MORE
Marytown a Eucharistic Town
BY Joseph Pronechen
March 28 - April 3, 1999 Issue
Earthly kings never give their subjects unlimited access. They are not granted audiences whenever they want. But at Marytown in Libertyville, Ill., subjects of the King of kings are at liberty to walk into this regal shrine at any time, any day, to visit their eucharistic Lord.
“Christus Regnat... READ MORE
She Gave More Than Her Millions
BY Joseph Pronechen
February 28-March 6, 1999 Issue
If “your treasure is where your heart lies,” then the only fortune stored up by a multimillionaire heiress during her long life was put in a heavenly savings account and audited in 1988, when Pope John Paul II beatified her as Blessed Katharine Drexel.
She began as a 19th-century socialite, a... READ MORE
The New Location Will Be a Dream Come True
February 21-27, 1999 Issue
The Marian Museum which is moving to Fatima will feel right at home.
The museum's move from its current home in New York to Portugal will give its collection of Marian images and statues far greater exposure to pilgrims from around the world.
When the idea of assembling the collection first came to... READ MORE
Marian Museum is Fatima-Bound
BY Joseph Pronechen Devoted founder of a Brooklyn facility has a rendezvous in Portugal
February 21-27, 1999 Issue
What can I do?” James Williamson asked himself while on pilgrimage over 35 years ago in Pontevedra, Spain.
He stood near the spot where Jesus had appeared in 1925 to Sister Lucia, the Fatima visionary, and asked the young postulant what was being done to promote devotion to his Mother.
Williamson's... READ MORE
In the Heart of the Metropolis
BY Joseph Pronechen After two centuries, New York's first parish still draws the faithful
February 14-20, 1999 Issue
St. Peter's Church in New York has seen it all, from farmland to financial district.
Lower Manhattan is a series of narrow streets that originated with the Dutch settlement at the southern tip of the island. The British and, later, the Americans lengthened those lanes to reach farmlands that would... READ MORE
Sea of Sanctuaries in a Polish Forest
BY Kevin Wright 17th-century shrine and pilgrimage site boasts dozens of chapels
January 31 - February 6, 1999 Issue
Among the many lovely shrines of Poland, the sanctuary of Kalwaria Paclawska stands out for its beauty and uniqueness. The story of the shrine's founding is among the most unusual in Catholic history. And, unlike most places of pilgrimage which tend to consist of one sanctuary, this shrine features... READ MORE
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