February 24th, 2011 I am on retreat at San Martino delle Scale, the only Benedictine monastery still operating in Sicily. The site was...

December 9th, 2010 Yesterday our cook confided, “I want to be a pilgrim.” In part, the journey was to seek a healing for a painful...

October 31st, 2010 The view from Monte Mario, the highest point in Rome, is what medieval pilgrims saw when the city first spread out...