The Best Place on Earth
Chicago, Illinois December 2008 Arriving back in Chicago from New Mexico at the end of September 2008, I was suddenly struck by a...
A Long Journey for Two Short Legs
"I remembered the words of my mother at learning of the death of my brother Pedro: ‘I asked God for two priest sons. He took Pedro to...
A Little Priest for a Little Church
A key book to discover how a little private chapel became the Shrine of Chimayo. Father Casimiro Roca says that one day the archbishop of...
Fr. Casimiro Roca, SF, the father of Chimayo
Having entered the seminary of San Andres at age eleven, Fr. Casimiro Roca celebrated sixty years as a priest on August 15, 2003. An avid...
Beloved Priest of Chimayo at Heart of Community
Throughout the mountain villages and towns of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado, the name Father Roca evokes smiles. He is the...