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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

Diary: A priest guides fellow travellers to St James

October 01, 2022

Walking holidays are not what walking the Camino, or indeed any holy path, is about, but the reordering of time is what they have in common. What really separates them is that single simple letter ‘I’. Somehow when walking a pilgrimage as a Christian the ego subsides

Two British pilgrims rescued after getting lost on the Camino de Santiago

August 22, 2016

The pair spent five days in the open and drank from ditches and animal troughs when their food and water ran out

Theatre preview: On the trail of a fiery hedonist who found grace

May 28, 2015

A new play tells the story of the extraordinary life and time of St Ignatius of Loyola

Morning Catholic must-reads: 22/08/14

August 22, 2014

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