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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

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

Is the Pope after an ‘Assisi on the Tiber’ to promote his spiritual vision

January 23, 2024

Mikhail Gorbachev once declared that while he remained an atheist, he had to admit that Soviet Communism had never produced anyone quite like Saint Francis, the Poor Man of Assisi, and his universal humanistic appeal. The former Soviet premier, who visited Assisi in 2008, is one in a long list of global figures who’ve been

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,

Carlo Acutis: His Life and Legacy

October 09, 2020

Acclaimed author Corinna Turner looks at the life and powerful legacy of witness of Carlo Acutis, whose beatification is Saturday, 10 October 2020.

Pope Francis releases Encyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti

October 04, 2020

The eight chapters of Fratelli Tutti are a statement of Pope Francis's social thought, inspired by the Admonitions of the pope’s sainted namesake.

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 in Assisi: ‘There is no such thing as a holy war’

September 21, 2016

Pope Francis spoke at the closing ceremony of an interreligious peace gathering in Assisi