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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

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)

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

Last Call to become a Herald Compostela pilgrim this Holy Jubilee Year

June 10, 2022

What to expect on the Catholic Herald Vigo to Santiago pilgrimage (20th to 27th July) and how to join our pilgrim band.

Tales of St James

April 09, 2021

Saints and sinners, miracles and miscreants, and even Old Scratch himself … the literature associated with the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela abounds in characters and tales as colorful, instructive and entertaining as anything in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.

The 2021 Holy Year of Jubilee in Santiago

March 01, 2021

Curtis Williams, veteran leader of Camino pilgrimages, reflects on the changing nature of the famous pilgrimage route in the Jubilee Year of St James

The 2021 Holy Year of Jubilee in Santiago

February 01, 2021

How did the relics of St. James, martyred by King Herod Agrippa I in Jerusalem in AD 44, end up in the remote and wild northwestern corner of Roman Hispania in the first place? Curtis Williams takes us to the crossroads of history and legend.