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Walk this way to level up Britain
February 28, 2022
The government’s levelling up white paper, overseen by Michael Gove, is commendable in many ways, not least in being a “moral, social and economic programme for the whole of government”. The document sets out how opportunity will be spread “more equally” across the UK. It aims to “restore a sense of community, local pride and
Catholics invited to make pilgrimage in Dante’s footsteps in anniversary year
November 11, 2021
Ravenna, Italy, Nov 11, 2021 / 04:20 am The poet Dante famously traveled through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in his masterpiece the “Divine Comedy.” Now, Catholics have a chance to follow in his footsteps — his earthly ones, that is.  Dante’s Walk is a 235-mile route that takes pilgrims from the Byzantine splendor of the city
Confessions of a religious pilgrim
July 30, 2021
In an age of secular pilgrimage, James Jeffrey 
writes about walking with spiritual purpose
Seville’s ancient alchemy of agony and ecstasy
July 01, 2021
The pain and joy that attend the human condition overflow in the Andalusian capital, finds James Jeffrey
Stories from a gentler time
July 01, 2021
First broadcast 60 years ago, Journey of a Lifetime explained Christian concepts to Sunday TV viewers 
O Cebreiro: The greatest Eucharistic miracle you’ve never heard of …
June 24, 2021
Tucked away in the remote hamlet of El Cebrero (O Cebreiro in the regional Galician language), atop a 1293-metre pass some 150 kilometres from the tomb of St. James, is the church of Santa María la Real, site of a powerful Eucharistic miracle.
Profiting from Penance
June 01, 2021
The saintly appeal of Thomas Becket in our secular world mirrors that of the revival of walking pilgrimages. Both, at least, are good for business
The pilgrimage of a lifetime
June 01, 2021
From Lourdes and Lindisfarne to El Salvador, walking with purpose allows for a more profound look at life
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