Catholic Archive

  • Ride to Church in Montreal

    Posted on March 10, 2013 | 4 Comments
    Last month, my husband and I visited our son, who’s a PhD student at the University of Montreal.  We’ve visited him twice now, and both times we’ve stayed the Pavilion Jean XXIII, a small hostel,  on the grounds of the St. Joseph Oratory. It’s a […]

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  • Ride to Church in Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Posted on June 17, 2012 | 5 Comments
    Today’s Ride to Church comes to us from Joanna in Albuquerque.   Joanna is one of the first non-Mormon people to send us a ride to church, so props to her (and to Elizabeth!).   Joanna writes: My ride to church is from my home […]

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  • Why don’t Mormons celebrate Lent?

    Posted on February 22, 2012 | 24 Comments
    Today is Ash Wednesday.   Before I spent eight years in Louisiana, I would not even have known what Ash Wednesday was.   I grew up in the Bible belt, so I knew plenty of Baptists, a few Methodists and Presbyterians, perhaps, but not many […]

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  • The Feast of St. Francis

    Posted on November 10, 2011 | 7 Comments
    This year, our family observed General Conference by attending the local Episcopal church.

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  • Ride (Walk) to Church in Madrid, Spain

    Posted on October 9, 2011 | 3 Comments
    Today’s Walk to Church comes to us from Dayna, who has been kind enough to let us publish a couple of her poems: My husband and I spent a month in Spain this past summer leading a study abroad group. We were situated in downtown […]

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  • Ride to Church in Vlora and Old Dukat, Albania

    Posted on September 4, 2011 | 5 Comments
    Today’s stunning Ride to Church comes to us from my friend Eralda, who took these pictures in Albania (her home country). Eralda took pictures in two different cities and writes: One is from my way to the Catholic church in Vlora, my hometown that is […]

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  • Walk to Church/Synagogue in Krakow

    Posted on July 10, 2011 | 9 Comments
    Today’s Walk to Church/Synagogue comes to us from Jacob Baker, who recently attended a conference in Krakow, Poland. This is sort of cheating because Jacob didn’t really take these pictures for Doves & Serpents, but kindly consented to let me use them after I Facebook-stalked […]

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