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Ark of the Great Pole’s Covenant
BY JOHN W. DAVIS Church of Our Lady, Queen of Poland Nowa Huta, Poland
October 7-13, 2007 Issue 
Look out your window while approaching Krakow from the air
and you can easily pick out two monstrously large landmarks.
The first is a scar on the landscape marking an erstwhile
stone quarry. Its gray walls arc around a lake. The second is a gray,
pipe-and-concrete behemoth of a building complex:... READ MORE
Beyond the Walls, a Sanctified City
BY ANGELO STAGNARO Cathedral-Fortress of Ávila
September 30 - October 6, 2007 Issue
Ávila, Spain
Any friend of God is a friend of mine, but the Spanish
Carmelite Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) will always have a special place in my
heart.
Hagiographic accounts relate the story of St. Teresa making
her way to her convent during a fierce rainstorm. She slipped and fell into... READ MORE
You Can’t Keep a Good Glen Down
BY KIMBERLY JANSEN Durward’s Glen
September 23-29, 2007 Issue
Caledonia Township, Wisconsin
I’ll never forget June 18, 2006, when Father’s Day and the
Feast of Corpus Christi shared the spotlight in a special way. On the drive
home from a camping trip near Wisconsin Dells, my family stopped for Sunday
Mass at Durward’s Glen, a wooded 40-acre retreat... READ MORE
Bavarian Bounty On a Mystical Meadow
BY DONNA POINTKOUSKI Church of the Scourged Savior
September 16-22, 2007 Issue
Steingaden, Germany
Bavaria is renowned for many things, not least among them
Munich, picturesque castles, bucolic landscapes, extra-large beer steins and
generous inhabitants — whose number once included, of course, young Joseph
Ratzinger.
It was here in Germany’s southernmost (and... READ MORE
Hope in the Highlands
BY JOANNA BOGLE Pluscarden Abbey
September 9-15, 2007 Issue
Morayshire, Scotland
Pluscarden Abbey is in the Highlands of Scotland, where the
Moray Firth reaches the North Sea. It’s not far from Culloden, scene of one of
the most tragic battles in British history.
Its setting is remote. The weekend I visited, it seemed more
than usually so, because a... READ MORE
Islands in God’s Stream
BY LORRAINE WILLIAMS A Catholic Visit to Portugal’s Pristine Azores
September 2-8, 2007 Issue
Azores Islands, Portugal
Pope John Paul II expressed his fondness for Portugal in his
November 2000 welcome address to the new Portuguese ambassador to the Holy See:
“I was able to see again (at Fatima) how the Christian religion molds
Portugal’s soul and marks its life, particularly through... READ MORE
To Touch St. Augustine’s Tomb
BY BARBARA COEYMAN HULTS Basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d’Oro
August 26 - September 1, 2007 Issue
Pavia, Italy
Until I read of Pope Benedict’s pilgrimage to the tomb of
St. Augustine this past April, I assumed the Church’s most influential intellectual
had been laid to rest in Milan or Rome, where he studied and taught. In fact, I
learned, he died in North Africa, where he was born.
Then I... READ MORE
Meet God in St. Louis
BY KATY CARL Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis
August 19-25, 2007 Issue
St. Louis, Missouri
For all its grandeur, the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis
must be humble — like the Church herself.
Earlier this year, the high drama of Holy Week rightly
overshadowed a milestone in the history of this great house of God: the 10-year
anniversary of its dedication as a... READ MORE
Mary’s Mission, We Assume?
BY Lynanne Lasota Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church
August 12-18, 2007 Issue
Florence, Arizona
Driving south into Florence, Ariz., on a two-lane highway
from Phoenix, my family and I were taken aback by the long stretches of spiral,
razor-wire fences surrounding one prison after the next. We wondered about the
spiritual state of the many people locked up behind the... READ MORE
Glories to God in the Grand Canyon State
BY MELANIE RADZICKI McMANUS Hitting the Catholic High Points of Arizona’s Oldest City
August 5-11, 2007 Issue
It’s not surprising that Tucson, Ariz., is filled with
Catholic buildings, shrines and works of art. After all, the city is
one-quarter Catholic, thanks in no small part to its substantial Hispanic
population, and it’s one of our nation’s more notable missionary centers. It’s
also known for... READ MORE
Your Feet May Falter But Your Soul Will Soar
BY EDWARD PENTIN The Long Walk to Santiago de Compostela Cathedral
July 22 - August 4, 2007 Issue
Galicia, Spain
For some years, I’d been hearing people praise the Camino de
Santiago de Compostela, the oldest Christian pilgrimage route in the world. In
fact I’d heard that, in recent years, the span of land has been bearing its
heaviest foot traffic since medieval times.
So last year I... READ MORE
Martha and Me
BY Amy Smith
July 22 - August 4, 2007 Issue
St. Teresa of Avila often observed that “the Lord walks
among the pots and the pans.”
On July 29 she would surely remember St. Martha, patron of
cooks, even though this year her feast must be skipped because it falls on a
Sunday. (Only solemnities can supersede ordinary and seasonal... READ MORE
The Peace Of Poland on The Detroit River
BY EMILY ORTEGA Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
July 15-21, 2007 Issue
Wyandotte, Mich.
BY EMILY ORTEGA
Just as few people recognize a prophet in their midst (see
Luke 4:24), few parishioners see the greatness in their home church —
magnificent though it may be to out-of-towners.
I grew up just a half-mile from my family’s parish, Our Lady
of Mount Carmel in... READ MORE
The Church’s Perfect Prayers
Spirit & Life
July 15-21, 2007 Issue
My new breviaries arrived in the mail the other day. I
ordered the full, four-volume set bound in black leather.
The books are beautiful. They’re a gift to myself for being
accepted to the seminary.
Starting in August, I begin priestly studies at Blessed John
XXIII National Seminary outside... READ MORE
Spirit & Life
BY Eric Scheske On the Fifth Day, I Begin ‘Resting’
July 8-14, 2007 Issue
Who said, “Better to live simply, be poor and have the time
to wander?”
St. Francis? Buddha?
Nope, it was the 20th-century poet Gary Snyder summing up
the sentiment behind the beatniks of the 1950s. The beatniks, he observed,
preferred to wander rather than pursue the American standard of... READ MORE
Modern Monasticism On Ancient Plains
BY KIMBERLY JANSEN St. Benedict’s Abbey
July 8-14, 2007 Issue
Atchison, Kansas
It was a joy to spend the month of June at my alma mater in
Atchison, Kan., as my husband continues his formation with the Fellowship of
Catholic University Students (Focus).
Nearly every classroom and building on the Benedictine
College campus holds fond memories for us. St.... READ MORE
The Fourth of July in Mary’s Land
BY EDDIE O’NEILL St. Mary’s Church
July 1-7, 2007 Issue
Annapolis, Maryland
There’s no day like Independence Day to reflect on the
religious freedoms we enjoy in these United States. And there’s no better
church in which to do the reflecting than St. Mary’s in Annapolis, Md.
Catholics didn’t always have it so easy in this country. In
Maryland,... READ MORE
The Maltese Pilgrim on St. Paul’s Shores
BY LORRAINE M. WILLIAMS The 317 Churches of Malta
June 24-30, 2007 Issue
Republic of Malta
One of Malta’s major festivals takes place in February, when
the country goes all out to celebrate the feast of St. Paul’s Shipwreck. I was
fortunate enough to be there that week — and I’ll be there again, in spirit at
least, come the June 29 feast of Sts. Peter and Paul.... READ MORE
Redemptorist Reverence In the ‘City of Churches’
BY MELANIE RADZICKI McMANUS Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica
Brooklyn, New York
June 17-23, 2007 Issue
Most people
riding the bus down Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn couldn’t tell me where the local
basilica was. But a few offered helpfully, “If it’s on Fifth Avenue at 59th
Street, it must be near the big church.”
The “big church,” of course, was the
basilica: Our Lady of Perpetual Help, or... READ MORE
Portugal’s Prayer Prodigy, Italy’s Prize Preacher
BY STEPHEN BUGNO Basilica of St. Anthony
Padua, Italy
June 10-16, 2007 Issue
Perhaps if winds had not blown his ship so
terribly off course, there may never have been a St. Anthony of Padua.
Anthony
— doctor of the Church, “hammer of heretics,” a Franciscan saint closely
associated with Italy — was, in fact, not Italian at all and only Franciscan by
happenstance.... READ MORE
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