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ON PILGRIMAGE WITH…Fr David Howell, a priest of the Archdiocese of Southwark who is also studying canon law in Rome

April 13, 2024

Where would you go? To see the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, after travelling to Latin America via transatlantic ship. It was produced miraculously after Mary appeared to a native Mexican, Saint Juan Diego, in the 16th century. Many native Mexicans converted to the Catholic faith in the wake of the

Letter from the Editor: Keeping our souls and churches in good (and sacred) order

March 27, 2024

Is nothing sacred? At the Catholic Herald we have argued in our articles that the Church of England has crossed such a line in allowing the naves of some of the UK’s greatest cathedrals – including Canterbury – to be temporarily repurposed for cocktail-fuelled silent discos (in which the revellers dance to music coming through headphones)

On Pilgrimage With: Guy Hayward, pilgrim and performer, author and director of the British Pilgrimage Trust

March 07, 2024

Where would you go? The Cornish Celtic Way or the Lakeland Pilgrimage, or anywhere along the west coast of Britain that is known for its temperate rainforests. I’ve chosen these two routes specifically because they both have a good selection of youth hostels, independent hostels, camping barns, bothies and, in Cornwall’s case, what we at

Pilgrimage standoff: Assisi v. Santiago de Compostela, which comes out on top?

February 18, 2024

Can one commit pilgrimage “adultery”? In the months of planning leading up to taking a group of Catholic Herald pilgrims along a portion of La Via di Francesco—the Way of Saint Francis—to Assisi in Italy, I felt a strange sense of unease about how I might be engaged in a form of betrayal. For my peregrino pilgrim

On pilgrimage with: Author and photographer Laura Dodsworth

February 17, 2024

Where would you go? I’d like to walk England’s classic Pilgrim’s Way from Winchester to Canterbury. But it is a two-week commitment and that is partly why I keep putting it off. It seems like too big a first step! Hilaire Belloc wrote about pilgrimage in The Old Road and said that “the Road [is]

Kansas bishop’s Eucharistic pilgrimage inspired by first US National Eucharistic Congress in 83 years

December 21, 2023

NEW YORK, Crux – On the first Saturday of the New Year the bishop of a small Kansas diocese will embark on a 20-mile Eucharistic procession and pilgrimage for peace, where he will pray for “peace in our world, our country, our communities, families and hearts”. Bishop Gerald Vincke of Salina will begin the 6

La Dolce Vita: On the Via di Francesco to Assisi with the Catholic Herald

July 08, 2023

Umbria in Italy beckons for the next Catholic Herald pilgrimage at the end of September. We are venturing beyond the Iberian Peninsula to walk the La Via di Francesco Camino to the hilltop town of Assisi. The La Via di Francesco Camino is inextricably bound up with St Francis—his feast day is on 4 October,

Sainted saunterers: prayer and praise on the pilgrim road to Chartres

May 28, 2023

Good news in the Church is even more appealing on the feast that is sometimes described as the Church’s birthday. The annual pilgrimage from Paris to the cathedral at Chartres, which takes place over Pentecost weekend, is growing exponentially. Jean de Tauriers, president of Notre-Dame de Chrétienté, which organises the pilgrimage, has been celebrating the