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20 local churches designated for Pauline Year pilgrimage sites
by Robert Delaney of The Michigan Catholic
Published December 5, 2008
 Detroit — Cardinal Adam Maida has named 20 churches in the Archdiocese of Detroit as official pilgrimage sites for the Jubilee Year celebrating the Apostle St. Paul, with the promise of a plenary indulgence to all those who make a qualifying visit to any of them.
A plenary indulgence remits the temporal punishment that would otherwise follow from the commission of a sin. A sinner is absolved of the eternal punishment through confession and absolution.
The Pauline Year will conclude June 29, 2009, and the cardinal's Nov. 18 decree says anyone who fulfills the required conditions "and in a spirit of total detachment from any inclination to sin" may benefit from the indulgence "when they take part devoutly in a sacred function or in a pious public exercise in honor of the Apostle to the Gentiles."
According to "Indulgences and Our Spiritual Life," a publication of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: "Plenary indulgences are attached to certain prayers and to certain devotional or charitable practices that we undertake with the intention of making the needed reparation.
"Examples of such practices approved by the Church include Eucharistic Adoration that lasts at least one half-hour, devout recitation of the Marian rosary, prayerful reading of Sacred Scripture, the making of the Way of the Cross, participation in a eucharistic procession on the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ, and participation in a parish mission," the publication continues.
In his decree, Cardinal Maida cites specific conditions attached to the Pauline Year plenary indulgence as "sacramental confession, Eucharistic Communion and prayers for the Supreme Pontiff's intention."
The cardinal added, "A holy year is an opportunity for all of us to grow spiritually, as well as to deepen our understanding and appreciation of the treasury of spiritual graces that are available to us through the Church."
At least one church was named in each of the 18 vicariates into which the archdiocese is divided. Two were designated in the Renaissance Vicariate because it has two churches dedicated to the saint – St. Paul on the Lake in Grosse Pointe Farms and SS. Peter & Paul (Jesuit) in Detroit. In the Trinity Vicariate, the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament was named, in addition to SS. Peter and Paul (West Side), both in Detroit.
Besides the churches named above, the pilgrimage sites for the other vicariates are:
- Birmingham-Bloomfield-Troy Vicariate:
Our Lady Queen of Martyrs Church, Beverly Hills.
- Central Macomb Vicariate:
St. Paul of Tarsus Church, Clinton Township.
- Downriver Vicariate:
St. Frances Cabrini Church, Allen Park.
- Blue Water Vicariate:
St. Mary Church, Port Huron.
- Farmington-Southfield Vicariate:
Our Lady of Sorrows Church, Farmington.
- Genesis Vicariate:
Our Lady Queen of Apostles Church, Hamtramck.
- Lakes Vicariate:
Holy Spirit Church, Highland Township.
- Monroe:
St. Charles Borromeo Church, Newport.
- North Macomb Vicariate:
St. Lawrence Church, Utica.
- Northwest Wayne Vicariate:
Our Lady of Victory Church, Northville.
- Pontiac Area Vicariate:
St. Paul (Albanian) Church, Rochester Hills.
- SERF Vicariate:
Our Lady Queen of All Saints Church, Fraser.
- Southwest Vicariate:
All Saints Church, Detroit.
- Southwest Oakland Vicariate:
National Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak.
- Thumb Vicariate:
SS. Peter & Paul Church, North Branch.
- West Wayne Vicariate:
St. Stephen Church, New Boston.
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