A Procession Like No Other

by C. C. Pecknold

Our way of walking and kneeling in the world will always be religious—whether kneeling before idols or before the one true God. Continue Reading »

11 Jun 2020

Public Displays of Piety

by Jordan Zajac

On a Greenwich Village street corner, amid a throng of man buns and designer sun hats, the priest held up the monstrance. Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2016

A Pilgim’s Progress: Corpus Christi 2008

by Nathaniel Peters

An excited group of girls behind me—ages five to eight, I think, walking with their mothers: some of them dribbling, others flinging, handfuls of rose petals drawn from their little white baskets. Next the censers, wafting smoke, and then the Sacrament itself, in its monstrance: a great golden sun . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Jun 2008