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Pilgrimage Standoff: Assisi or Santiago de Compostela – it’s a tough call

April 07, 2024

Can a person commit pilgrimage “adultery”? In all the planning leading up to taking a group of Catholic Herald pilgrims along a portion of the Via di Francesco – the Way of St Francis – to Assisi in Italy, I felt a strange sense of unease about being engaged in a form of betrayal. For

St Clare and St Francis show us what we can achieve through prayer and fasting

August 11, 2017

The saints were given to long periods of seclusion, silence, prayer and fasting

Assisi has run its course. Something more daring is called for

September 22, 2016

Peaceful people gather to pray for peace – it won't sway those in favour of violence

Pope Francis to visit Assisi in August to mark key Franciscan anniversary

July 05, 2016

Pope Francis will make a 'simple and private pilgrimage' to Assisi on August 4

Pope makes secret stop at Nativity scene’s birthplace

January 06, 2016

Francis made a surprise visit to the place where St Francis of Assisi created the world's first Nativity scene

‘Protect every life to prepare for a better future’ says Pope on World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation

September 02, 2015

The Pope presided at an evening of prayer yesterday in St Peter's Basilica

Do we really need a new day dedicated to the environment?

August 12, 2015

We have plenty of feasts suitable for reflecting on Creation. Why September 1?

Embrace the message of my encyclical, Pope urges faithful

June 17, 2015

The Pope's encyclical, Laudato Si, will be published tomorrow

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