Faithful Traveling
Tips, Trips, and Stories From My Faithful Travels
Why I Go On Pilgrimage (and Why You Should, Too!)
This post first appeared at Roman Catholic Spiritual Direction on September 24, 2013. For me, pilgrimage has always meant coming home to a place where I am loved. You know that feeling of security...
Interview with the St Josemaria Institute
Recently, I was fortunate to meet Elia Rivera, the Executive Director of the St Josemaria Institute in Chicago. The Institute promotes the life and teachings of this fantastic saint, and...
Catholic History in New York: An Interview with Msgr Shelley
This is a clip from our episode on New York City's St Patrick's Cathedral, in which we discuss some of the people behind the city's Catholic history. Featuring an interview...
Interview on Travelujah
I'm still working away on our Holy Land episodes, but I wanted to break this radio silence to wish you all a prayerful and blessed Holy Week and a joyous Easter! Also, I wanted to tell you about my...
My Recent Interview with Lisa Hendey of CatholicMom.com
Things have been a tad silent around here. Apologies. I've been working, vacationing, and non-blogging. I hope to have some good stuff to blog about soon, but for now, I just thought I'd point your...
RealFaithTV Interview on Mary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o8lpsz2TxA&feature=youtu.be Check out this spectacular episode of RealFaithTV, a Catholic program geared toward teens that is produced from a very talented team...
Renewing Vows at Cana
The second day of our Holy Land pilgrimage was probably the easiest, as we only had 3 places to go--and one was at the beach! The day started off quickly. We had a spectacular breakfast at our...
Kids in Israel
At one point during our pilgrimage to the Holy Land, we had to walk through the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem to get to the Western Wall. The CUTEST little girl--ok, she was probably 13 or so, she's...
Singing Roosters, Dark Dungeons, and Feet
On the seventh day of our pilgrimage to the Holy Land, my team had a casualty. David stayed in the hotel that day, because his legs had swollen from the knees down, after having fallen on the Via...
Holy Thursday in the Holy Land
Since today is Holy Thursday, I thought I’d take an early detour from my sporadic blogging about our pilgrimage and jump to Day 6—the day we visited the Upper Room, where the Last Supper is said to...
Holy Land Pilgrimage, Day 1
We left the US around midnight on March 25th—the Feast of the Annunciation, the anniversary of our engagement (David and me), and... oddly enough, the day that the ONE RING was unmade in Mordor......
We’re Going to the Holy Land
Well. Talk about God answering your prayers, and then some. If you’ve been following our blog, you may have been wondering where we’ve been. In brief, since The Faithful Traveler debuted on EWTN in...
AWESOME DVD Review
William Newton, an online acquaintance, fellow ND Law alum, and just all-around awesome guy recently said he’d be happy to review our 2-DVD set. I’ll be honest. I was nervous sending the DVDs to...
Memories of the Miraculous Medal Shrine
This Sunday (at 6 pm, not the usual 5 pm!!), EWTN will air Episode 6, featuring Philadelphia’s wonderful Miraculous Medal Shrine. There is SO MUCH to say about this shrine. I’m not sure where to...
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Maryland
This week, EWTN is airing Episode 5 of The Faithful Traveler, featuring two locations in Maryland that are associated with St. Elizabeth Ann Seton: St. Mary's Spiritual Center and Historic Site on...
It’s All About Joy
Ok, so, yesterday’s post was a downer, and I hate leaving things in a not-so-happy place. So, today, I’m going to share with you some of the many happy emails and comments we’ve received from...
This Aint Your Grandmother’s TV Show
Hello all! So, the show is on the air—people seem to be liking it—and my interview on EWTN’s Life on the Rock has come and gone. I had a wonderful time at EWTN when I went out there for the show....
Catholic Sites in NYC
Today, Episode 3 of The Faithful Traveler airs, and in this episode, we visit two locations, both associated with St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the country’s first canonized saint. Pretty cool that it...
National Shrine of St Katharine Drexel
I can’t get over the amazing response we’ve gotten since the show has begun airing on EWTN, and since Life on the Rock. YOU GUYS TOTALLY ROCK! Man! It almost took me a whole day to respond to all...
Coming to the Rock
Ok everybody! Here we go! Thursday, March 4 at 8 pm EST (repeats Friday at 1 am, 1 pm, and Sunday at 11 pm), I’m going to be on EWTN’s Life on the Rock!! How exciting is that?! That’s also the day...