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9: St Peter’s basilica at its best and worst

As one prepares to visit Rome for the first time, one may expect that the highpoint would be St Peter’s […]

At breakfast on Wednesday morning in Rome, our group of 45 pilgrims seemed a little more animated than usual. This

Francesco di Bernardone was in many ways the prototype hippie, in the best sense of the word. He opted out

JANUARY 2005 Following an apostolic visitation to the diocese of Eshowe, the Vatican rules that controversial Sr Priscilla Dlamini remain

Reviewed by Gunther Simmermacher Produced by Italian TV station RAI, the first two DVDs in this animated series for children

In bygone eras, pilgrims to the Holy Land would arrive at the bustling, colourful port of Jaffa (at least if

When the author Mark Twain made his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1869, he found Nazareth “wonderfully interesting because

The advent of Jesus’ public ministry arguably was his baptism by his relative John, the itinerant preacher of a new

Tabgha, at the foot of the Mount of Beatitudes, is one of those sites that reminds us that Jesus� concerns