Catholic Insight, January 1st, 2006
As a pre-Christmas gift to mark my 21st year as a Roman Catholic, my 'coming of age' in the faith, I finally undertook my first ever pilgrimage to Italy, Rome, and the Vatican this fall. It was an overwhelming, sense-flooding, soul-affirming experience that I expect I will be absorbing for the rest of my life. To live for a week in a land where the Christian faith constitutes the very bedrock of civilisation (not that everyone ascribes to it, mind you) was a novelty to say the least. Sure, there are Italian Jews, Muslims and agnostics in evidence, all free to go about their lives in an unencu...
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