Table of Contents
A Preliminary Postcard ix
Letter 1 Baltimore and Milledgeville: Acquiring the "Habit of Being" 1
Letter 2 The Papal Basilica of St. Peter's, Rome: The Scavi and the Grittiness of Catholicism 19
Letter 3 St. Catherine's Monastery, Mt. Sinai / The Holy Sepulcher, Jerusalem: The Face of Christ 35
Letter 4 The Dormition Abbey, Jerusalem: Mary and Discipleship 55
Letter 5 The Oratory, Birmingham, England: Newman and "Liberal" Religion 69
Letter 6 The Olde Cheshire Cheese, London: Chesterton's Pub and a Sacramental World 89
Letter 7 Castle Howard, Yorkshire, England: Brideshead Revisited and the Ladder of Love 107
Letter 8 The Sistine Chapel, Rome: Body Language, God-Talk, and the Visible Invisible 127
Letter 9 St. Mary's Church, Greenville, South Carolina: Why and How We Pray 147
Letter 10 St. Stanislaw Kostka Churchyard, Warsaw / The Metropolitan Curia, Krakow: How Vocations Change History 165
Letter 11 The North American College Mausoleum, Campo Verano, Rome: The Hardest Questions 183
Letter 12 The Hill of Crosses, Siauliai, Lithuania / The Basilica of St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island, Rome: The New Martyrs and Us 197
Letter 13 Cell 18, Block 11, KL-Auschwitz: The Mystery of Evil 219
Letter 14 Chartres Cathedral, France: What Beauty Teaches Us 237
Letter 15 King's College Chapel, Cambridge / Ely Cathedral: The Secularization Puzzle 253
Letter 16 The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico City: Incultaration and the New Evangelization 275
Letter 17 The Old Cathedral, Baltimore: Freedom for Excellence 293
Letter 18 St. Patrick's Church, Soho, London: Why Orthodoxy, Liturgy, Service, and Work for Justice Go Together 311
Letter 19 The Basilica of the Holy Trinity, Krakow: On Not Being Alone 327
Sources 345
Acknowledgments 353
