The Mystery of the Underwater Crucifix
About twenty feet underwater in Lake Michigan there’s a white marble crucifix from Italy. Diver Denny Jessick used a trail of rumors to search for its origin story.
About twenty feet underwater in Lake Michigan there’s a white marble crucifix from Italy. Diver Denny Jessick used a trail of rumors to search for its origin story.
What had I expected to find here, in this place named for another religion’s saint? This was a shrine to the mother of God - but not the mother of any of my gods.
I think of Father Sullivan every time I pass, imagining him walking the circular path between the stations of the cross.
It certainly isn’t cool, or edgy, or funny–the things people say about what it must be like to live in a church. It’s relentless.
All Saints Parish has a special status within the Catholic church because of the massive collection of relics that adorn its walls, vestibules, and nooks.
A cut through the layers of America past and present in the historic steel town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
In Pittsburgh, Lenten fish fries remain a proudly local, idiosyncratic, and fraternal tradition.
Andy Warhol, the Rust Belt, and me.
Pittsburgh was once a Black Muslim refuge. Here's one family's story.
From the Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook.