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Expiatory Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Barcelona
Sunday, August 24, 2025
Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem, whence Mary was assumed into heaven
Sunday, August 17, 2025
National Shrine of Saint Francis of Assisi, San Francisco, CA
Sunday, August 10, 2025
The Cathedral of St. Front, Périgueux, France
Sunday, August 3, 2025
Antibes Cathedral, France
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Chapel of St Monica, Rome (where Robert Prevost was ordained to the priesthood on June 19, 1982)
Sunday, July 20, 2025
Melk Abbey overlooking the Danube in Austria
Sunday, July 13, 2025
Life In Hidden Light: The Carmelite monastery of Wolverhampton
Sunday, July 6, 2025
St. Joseph’s Seminary, Yonkers-Dunwoodie, NY (drone’s eye view)
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Turin Cathedral and the Shroud
Sunday, June 22, 2025
The Hidden History of St Peter’s Basilica
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Rose petals at the Pantheon: A Pentecost tradition
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Mont-Saint-Michel Abbey, Normandy, France
Sunday, June 1, 2025
Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Zaragoza, Spain
Sunday, May 25, 2025
Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence, Italy
Sunday, May 18, 2025
St. Thomas of Villanova Church (where Leo XIV prayed as a student)
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Preparing the Sistine Chapel for the conclave
Sunday, May 4, 2025
St. Mary Major Basilica: The interment of Pope Francis
Sunday, April 27, 2025
St. Colman’s Cathedral, Cobh (pronounced ‘cove’), Ireland
Sunday, April 13, 2025
St. Stanislaus Kostka Church, Chicago
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Cathédrale Saint-Étienne in Bourges, France
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City
Sunday, March 23, 2025
St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City with architect Duncan Stroik
Sunday, March 16, 2025
St. Mary Major (Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome)
Sunday, March 9, 2025
Cathedral of Santa Maria, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Sunday, March 2, 2025
Sankt Eriks Katolska Domkyrka (St. Erik’s Cathedral), Stockholm
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Church of St. Ignatius, Rome
Sunday, February 16, 2025
St. Joseph’s Trappist Abbey
Sunday, February 9, 2025
The mosque that became the Cordoba Cathedral
Sunday, February 2, 2025
The ‘Angelicum’ in Rome
Sunday, January 26, 2025
St. Joseph’s Yorkville (NYC), Fr. Gerald E. Murray, now pastor
Sunday, January 19, 2025
Basilica of Saint Thérèse, Lisieux, France
Sunday, January 12, 2025
National Shrine (and minor basilica) of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Colm Flynn: The world’s northern-most Catholic church
Sunday, December 22, 2024
Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart (Newark, NJ)
Sunday, December 15, 2024
Notre-Dame de Paris: rebuilt, reverently restored, and reopened
Sunday, December 8, 2024
The four Major Basilicas of Rome
Sunday, December 1, 2024
The Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Savannah
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Outside and inside Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
Sunday, November 17, 2024
The Catholic Chapel at the U.S. Air Force Academy
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Abbey of Citeaux, Burgundy, France
Sunday, November 3, 2024
Discovering Amsterdam’s Clandestine Churches
Sunday, October 27, 2024
Valencia Cathedral – and the Holy Grail.
Sunday, October 20, 2024
The Cathedral-Basilica of Notre Dame in Québec City (filmed in 2022)
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary of Fatima, Portugal
Sunday, October 6, 2024
The Basilica of Saint-Therese in Lisieux, France
Sunday, September 29, 2024
Bishop Barron: ‘Reading’ Orvieto Cathedral
Sunday, September 22, 2024
Consecration of Downside Abbey (1935)
Sunday, September 15, 2024
Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Sunday, September 8, 2024
Cathedral of St. James Innsbruck, Austria
Sunday, September 1, 2024
