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Why Support Catholic Media?
I’m a strong advocate for Catholic media and publishing. Here’s why you should be, too.
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Marian Pilgrimage: Discovering Mary Across the USA
I’m partnering with Ave Maria Press on this project, which will take me to nine different Marian pilgrimage sites coast to coast throughout the United States. I’ll be posting about my travels here on this blog and on my social media as well. The resulting work will be a Read more
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Chatting Marian Miracles with The Miracle Hunter
Last week I had the great honor to chat with Michael O’Neill, aka The Miracle Hunter, for his Relevant Radio Show by the same name – The Miracle Hunter. I’ve been a fan of Michael O’Neill’s for some time. He’s my go-to resource for information and fact-checking as I complete Read more
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How To Go On Retreat When You Can’t Go On Retreat
I recently wrote a post for National Catholic Register about our innate need to take time away from our day-to-day lives in order to focus on God and our relationship with him. In my post, I wrote: Some might think that going on a retreat is a frivolous thing, Read more
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The Ellis Island of the West and the Painted Churches of Texas
That Ellis Island in New York was a main gateway into the US for a vast number of European immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries likely is no surprise to you. Maybe a bit surprising is that, from the mid-1800s to mid-1900s, more than twelve million immigrants passed through Read more
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Marian Pilgrimage: Miracles Still Happen at the Only Marian Apparition Site in the USA
Miracles do indeed happen, and they’re happening every day in Champion, Wisconsin. That’s the site of the only Marian apparition site in the United States – the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in the Diocese of Green Bay. I visited there recently as part of Marian Pilgrimage: Read more
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National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help: Three Things I Learned
My head and heart are still swirling from my trip this past Friday to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help in the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin. It was my first stop for Marian Pilgrimage: Discovering Mary Across the USA, and it was a doozy in many Read more