Today is October 13th, 2025 and this picture was taken 18 days ago in Fatima, Portugal. Where we are standing is where 70,000 rain drenched people stood 108 years ago. They were expecting a miracle and boy, did they get one. We are up near the top of the parking lot that was once a green pasture. Down in the background on the left, in front of the superimposed image of a statue of the Blessed Mother is a pavilion. That pavilion wasn't there in 1917. All that was there was gre

PART I- FLORIDA, PORTUGAL AND SPAIN The next chapter in my journey- Champion, Wisconsin - will have to be written. Logistical issues just...

PART II: FRANCE During the first part of my pilgrimage, I met this wonderful couple from Denver. Their pilgrimage ended in Paris at a...

It seems like ages ago that I was aboard a United Airlines plane over the Atlantic ocean. There was a point where we began consistently...

These 2 images are of a statue on the grounds of the Nevers convent that Bernadette used to love to pray before. It came to be known as...

Tomorrow, on the First Friday of the month, we will celebrate Holy Mass at the very spot where the Sacred Heart Devotion originated....

At the base is a villiage, at the midpoint an abbey, at the summit, a majestic castle built into the rock. So many legends and devotions...

In this miraculous little villiage of Rocamadour (which I will write about later), Saint Bernard of Clairveux wrote these powerful words...

Some nice sites after Mass but underwhelming overall. It could be the post-Lourdes let down.

Another very poor night of sleep. A friend calling from the U.S.A woke me at 3:00 AM and a nightmare woke me again at 4:30. I stumbled...

It would be difficult to envision a more distinct line of demarcation in this European part of my search for faith, grace and miracles,...

Yesterday, we left Burgos, Spain and hit the road. After about 2 hours, we arrived in Loyola, Spain. We went to Mass in a chapel right...