The Knights who took Washington
The name comes from an island in southern Maryland that we visited during one of our camping trips: St. Clement Island. Here we found a small museum, with some plaques recounting the experiences of the first Catholic pilgrims: having fled England, they intended to land on this shore – Maryland, the “land of Mary” – but they wanted to debark on the day of the Annunciation. They waited in their ships for a few days, so they would arrive on March 25. This impressed us so much that we baptized our little group, just beginning, the “Knights of St. Clement.” We ...
Conquered by the West
Michael Carvill, priest of St. Charles since 1990, tells of his conquest of the West. How did the presence in the United States of the Fraternity of St. Charles begin? It began with me, when I did my year of diaconate in a downtown parish in Sacramento, California, at the invitation of the pastor. A few months after my arrival I was joined by Antonio Baracchini. Fr. Massimo Camisasca came to visit us twice during that year. It was not possible, however, to become established in that diocese. After that first attempt, for about two years Antonio and I served in a parish ...
Dante with Stars and Stripes
“A city on a hilltop” is how John Winthrop, perhaps the first American historical figure, described the ideal that brought the first pilgrims from England to the New World. From the beginning, their ideal was one of founding an unambiguously Christian society which could enlighten, even from such a distance, a Europe torn by wars of religion. I have only been in the United States for a few months, beginning a year of overseas formation in our house in Washington; and yet, in such a brief time, I have seen that this ideal is still very much alive in the ...
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The Knights who took Washington
by Roberto AmorusoThe name comes from an island in southern Maryland that we visited during one of our camping trips: St. Clement Island. Here we found a small museum, with...
Conquered by the West
by Gianluca AttanasioMichael Carvill, priest of St. Charles since 1990, tells of his conquest of the West. How did the presence in the United States of the Fraternity of St....
Dante with Stars and Stripes
by Michele Benetti“A city on a hilltop” is how John Winthrop, perhaps the first American historical figure, described the ideal that brought the first pilgrims from...
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