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Basil's Travels
Freak Bus Across Afghanistan
May 2023My rescuers had, without any advance notice, sacrificed their money, time, and convenience for the sake of this foreigner, this stranger, perhaps this infidel.
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Night Bus Across Baluchistan
April 2023For $333 I would receive “transportation by bus and double occupancy of a tent” on an escorted 60-day ride from Frankfurt, Germany, to Kathmandu, Nepal.
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The Divine Life of St. Nazianz
April 2022This Catholic town was created out of raw Wisconsin woodlands by a single priest as a utopian religious haven.
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Beyond Balkanization
May 2020Croatia's cardinal Stepinac faced opposition unimaginable to most prelates in the modern West. By all indications, he did not buckle.
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Religious Rebirth in the Black Mountains
May 2018A Montenegrin national census asked about religious affiliation. Seventy-two percent answered Orthodox, 3.5 percent Catholic, and 19 percent Muslim.
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A Church Rises from the Ruins
January-February 2015Catholicism in 1980s Estonia amounted to one shunned priest living in a closet; his flock numbered fewer than a half dozen souls.
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God & Man in Kyiv
November 2012Monastery of the Caves was founded on the Dnieper River in A.D. 1015, when Kyiv was capital of the Russian state. The monastery is one of Orthodoxy's greatest.
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A Mass in Latvia
April 2010Here Catholics can discover a Church tougher and more unashamed than their own, and perhaps can learn how to persevere against a cultural elite that despises them.
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Travels in Europe's Once & Future Faith
April 2009From 2001 to 2008 this author traveled to 16 European countries for business, attending Mass in each. This is what I encountered.
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Contrasts in Christendom: Red Lights in Amsterdam, Neon In Malta
October 2006One country has kept Catholicism in the attic for centuries. The other has kept Catholicism alive, even on uninhabited islands.
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At the Tomb of St. Thérèse
October 2004She was thought so unimportant in her day that her newspaper obituary read: "Death on 30 September, of Marie Françoise Thérèse Martin, 24 years 9 months, nun at Carmel, rue de Jivarot."
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Graffiti in Warsaw, Mormons in Krakow, & Basements in Auschwitz
May 2004In Poland the presumption is that truth is one, and there is only the true Church. If it's not Catholic, it's not true. The spiritual maze is simple to navigate.
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At Mass in Lenin's City
March 2003The Catholic Church is the only large institution left for effective resistance to Trotsky's enduring Culture of Death and its ruinous impact.
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- Karl Keating
