Faithful Traveling

Tips, Trips, and Stories From My Faithful Travels
Preparing for the Holy Land

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...

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Jordan, Israel, and Palestine on my Mind

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...

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Remembering Professor Charles E. Rice

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...

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Heroic Suffering

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,...

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Living in Bethlehem, Where it All Began

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...

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Remembering the Holocaust at Yad Vashem

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...

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Being Nazorean: Life in the Holy Land

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,...

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How Pilgrimage Changes You

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,...

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San Martin de Porres and his Broom

San Martin de Porres and his Broom

For as long as I've known, my mom has had this statue of St Martin de Porres. She doesn't know who gave it to her, and she's not quite sure why she has it. But he's still there. She took the photo...

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How Travel Can Help Us Become Saints

How Travel Can Help Us Become Saints

It's been almost two weeks since my husband David and I returned from our whirlwind tour of Portugal as we filmed our next series, The Faithful Traveler in Portugal. It was such a spectacular trip,...

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