Faithful Traveling
Tips, Trips, and Stories From My Faithful Travels
Coming Home from A Pilgrimage
I am home now, after having spent a whirlwind 16 days in the Holy Land, first in Jordan, then in Israel and Palestine. My house looks, as my dear friend Denise Bossert so artfully put it on her...
HOLY JORDAN, this place is AMAZING!
The last time I posted was a few days ago. If you're not following me on social media or on this page I created for those who don't care too much for social media, you're not getting the daily,...
Jordan Journal: Wandering the Streets of Amman
It is currently 2:14 AM in Amman. I woke up completely refreshed and ready to start my day... at 1:30 AM after having gone to bed, exhausted, around 11:30. Ah, travel. Might as well take this...
Celebrating Easter with Our Melkite Brothers and Sisters
Today was an awesome day in Jordan. Deacon Greg Kandra did a masterful job illustrating the beginning of today's adventures on his blog here, including photos of our hotel and of me getting some...
Traveling to Jordan, Day 1
Yesterday, I took a shuttle bus to JFK to board a Royal Jordanian flight to Amman, Jordan. At the airport, I met the first two of my intrepid fellow travelers, Frank Weathers and Deacon Greg Kandra....
Learning Languages for Travel
Whenever I travel abroad, I always try to find the time to learn as much of the language of the country I am visiting as I can. I think doing so is important on so many levels. First of all, it...
Preparing for the Holy Land
This week, I find myself yet again embarking on a trip/pilgrimage to the Holy Land. This trip is unexpected, I'll be honest. While I have been planning a pilgrimage to the Holy Land for quite some...
Jordan, Israel, and Palestine on my Mind
Update on My Activities Since I gave up social media for Lent, I have felt extremely isolated. Life is very quiet when you work from home, have tons of work to do, and aren't on social media.Add the...
Remembering Professor Charles E. Rice
On Wednesday night, February 25th, my beloved Torts professor and mentor, Charles E. Rice passed away. Since finding out that evening, I have been thinking about and praying for him and his family...
Heroic Suffering
"Christian perfection consists in three things: praying heroically, working heroically, and suffering heroically." --St. Anthony Mary Claret When I moved to New York City, I knew no one--ok,...
Living in Bethlehem, Where it All Began
Did you hear that we're organizing a pilgrimage to the Holy Land this April? It's going to be awesome! As part of the excitement leading up to this trip, I'm speaking with people who have either...
Talking Music and Poetry with Isabel Marcheselli
When I was editing the first episodes of The Faithful Traveler, I made the decision to add music to the series and I asked all of my friends if they knew someone who wrote music. That's how I met...
Do Something: Letting Obstacles Become the Way
Life can be overwhelming. Sometimes, it throws too much good at you. Or bad. Other times, despite what life throws at you, whatever is left inside of you after the last bout of things life threw at...
Remembering the Holocaust at Yad Vashem
On our last visit to the Holy Land, we were fortunate to visit and film at Yad Vashem, the vast and haunting holocaust museum in Jerusalem. Pope St John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis...
Meet Ikey Korin: Your Israeli KEY to the Holy Land
In May of 2014, we were blessed to travel to the Holy Land, as guests of the Israel Ministry of Tourism, to film a production on Pope Francis' pilgrimage. (That special is still in production and...
Being Nazorean: Life in the Holy Land
Readers of my blog and followers of my Facebook page have met my dear friend, Habib Karam many times. I first introduced him shortly after I'd met him in May, and he's guest blogged once before,...
Terrorists Will Not Stop Us From Traveling: An Interview with Saliba Danho
Born and raised in the heart of Jerusalem, not far from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, Saliba Danho knows the Holy Land better than anyone I have ever met. As President of Voice of Faith Tours,...
Philadelphia’s National Shrine of St John Neumann
Today is the memorial of St John Nepomucene Neumann, Philadelphia’s fourth bishop and our country’s first male saint. In celebration of his memorial, I wrote a post about our shrine here in...
How Pilgrimage Changes You
... from then on, all of those people who had heretofore been complete strangers now shared a bond that only others who had been on the same pilgrimage could understand. They’d go home, I told them,...
Tuesday Guest Star #2: Habib Karam on Nazareth's Basilica of the Annunciation
Today is Tuesday! You know what that means? We're gonna have a special guest! Today's special guest star is Habib Karam, a dear friend whom I was blessed to meet online, and then in person this past...