Spirit Daily: There’s a good chance you’ve heard of it, that old coal town in eastern Pennsylvania that was abandoned due to an unstoppable fire in the mine beneath it. Smoke issues from cracks in what were streets; vegetation has died. … Continue reading
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Pilgrimage To a Pennsylvania Ghost Town
National Catholic Register, Edward Pronechen: Imagine a once-thriving town with seven churches, businesses, schools, and working families — now with less than 10 residents. Imagine all but a handful of those homes and building once alive but now mostly razed. Imagine … Continue reading
Royal Russian Converts: The Two Princes Galitzin
The name Galitzin should be known and loved by every American Catholic. Prince Dimitrius Augustine Galitzin was the second priest ordained in the United States, and the first to receive all of his clerical orders here. He worked as a … Continue reading