I had the extreme pleasure of being invited to Nazareth College for a round table discussion with spiritual life leaders from a number of Rochester area colleges. Getting an opportunity to meet with and bounce ideas off people from all backgrounds and faith perspectives was an honor all its own, but to have been […]
Occasionally we receive a suggestion from you guys on a place you think might be interesting to visit. More than a couple people now have said, “You should check out that ‘golf ball church’ in Le Roy! At your request, we added it to our always lengthy queue and decided that we’d someday follow up […]
The majority of our explorations throughout the Burned Over District have been to locales that have given us first hand experiences with a belief system. Of course, not every stop has included a mass or service, but for the most part, we’ve been able to visit a physical place to help learn more about the […]
We originally began this project by wanting to visit physical places of religiosity across New York that made us curious or had a particularly interesting history to them. Though it wasn’t our intention, it wasn’t long before the people at each site quickly became just as much of the story and brought an entirely new […]
A visit to St. John Gualbert’s Church near Buffalo reveals one of the largest collections of Catholic relics in the world UPDATE: In November 2016, the Bishop officially issued a decree designating this relic collection. Though it is within St. John Gualbert’s Parish in Cheektowaga, the collection itself is now known as the Shrine of […]