Sometimes things that are long expected don't become real for me until some particular but otherwise mundane moment. I spent over a year...

Today I am fifteen years old. It seems like so long ago, that Saturday afternoon when I was baptized, and I can hardly imagine what I was th...

This place is a madhouse. At Pio’s tomb you can hardly pray because of the racket of people firing coins at the sarcophagus. Just walking...

Today we had our official tour of the basilica of St. Francis, though most of us had already explored it on our own. It was good to have a s...

We arrived here late this afternoon for a one-day, two-night moment of recollection. Sitting here after supper it feels like the first momen...

Cardinal Barberini’s tomb is front and center in the floor. It reads, “hic iacet pulvis, cinis, et nihil.” To write, “here lies nothing.” It...

I kept a journal while we were away on pilgrimage, and I thought I would start to share some it here. So here's the beginning: Pelagius ...