Poland Pilgrimage
Peace in times of trouble
By Eleanor O’Hagan Columnist The sites of St. Maximillian Kolbe, Pope St. John Paul II and Auschwitz move students to enter into prayerful pilgrimage on the Poland trip. We spent a large portion of time in the camps Auschwitz and Birkenau, sites of the most horrendous crimes against humanity. Humanity was lost in these places, […]
Austrian Adventures: Poland Pilgrimage — Beautiful Wounds
By Maria Brounstein Austria Correspondent Nothing clears the mind at 6 a.m. quite like trumpet blasts, Polish singing and a hard marble floor. I was one of 200-odd students packed into the very front of the Black Madonna’s chapel at Jasna Góra, Częstochowa, last week. We had arrived on coach buses at around 5 a.m., […]