by Diana | Jun 8, 2015 | Behind the Scenes, Personal Travel, Photos, Pretty Things, Saints
Last month, the Pew Research Center released a study that concluded that a lot of people have left and are leaving the Catholic Church. (You can read the study here.) Since then, Catholics around the blogosphere have been writing about why they are and plan to stay...
by Diana | Jan 5, 2015 | Catholic History, Liturgical Calendar, RCSD Post, Saints, Videos
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 Philadelphia, the National Shrine of St John Nepomucene Neumann, one...
by Diana | Nov 3, 2014 | Liturgical Calendar, Saints
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 above yesterday for this post. When I was...
by Diana | Nov 1, 2014 | Behind the Scenes, Personal Travel, Pilgrimage, Portugal, 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, and I plan to tell you about it in future posts, there is so...
