Dan Valenti's Mercy Journal

Part 2: It took one bite of an apple, as Genesis relates, but the full meaning of mercy in the story of good and evil lies underneath the surface, at the core.
An old Vaudeville routine will be put to the test at a new combined Divine Mercy Parish, which opens on Divine Mercy Sunday.
Part 1: Eve picked the apple, took a bite, and gave it to Adam, who did the same. The worm turned. Paradise lost. How do we get it back, and how does Divine Mercy fit in?
On Feb. 11, Lourdes observed the 150th anniversary of the world's most famous Marian apparition. Marian Helper Marie Romagnano, our foreign correspondent, was on hand to report.
Who has the time or the inclination to worry about full-suffering brothers and sisters half-a-world away? A believer in Divine Mercy, that's who.
How a town dump became the site of Catholicism's most popular pilgrimage destination.
How the Lourdes apparitions find authenticity in Mary's own words.
The seminal Marian apparition site brings peace to 'virtual pilgrims' on Eden Hill.
Today, the body of St. Bernadette, still incorrupt, lies in the main chapel of the Convent of St. Gildard in Nevers, France.
The special dispensation will be granted pilgrims who visit either the apparition site in France or a dedicated Lourdes shrine, such as the one at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Mass.

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