Faith, Travel, and the Call to Walk in Christ's Footsteps

The True Cross: Visiting the Holy Sepulchre and Calvary
Every Church of the Holy Sepulchre pilgrimage arrives, sooner or later, at a single overwhelming fact: under one roof in Jerusalem stand both the rock...

How Group Pilgrimage Strengthens Parish Life
Ask a priest who has led his people on pilgrimage what changed, and he rarely begins with the sites. He begins with the parish. A...

Confession in Medjugorje: Why Pilgrims Call It the Confessional of the World
There is a sound you notice in Medjugorje before you understand it: the long, unhurried quiet of people waiting to confess. Outside St. James Church,...

Bringing Your Parishioners to Medjugorje: Pastoral Considerations
There is a reason Medjugorje has drawn more than forty million pilgrims in four decades, and it has little to do with sightseeing. People come...

Marian Sites in the Holy Land: From the Annunciation to the Assumption
Mary walked this ground before it was anyone’s pilgrimage route—a girl in Nazareth, a young mother on the road to Bethlehem, a grieving woman at...

How to Lead a Pilgrimage to Marian Shrines
As the Solemnity of the Assumption draws near each August, something stirs in Catholic hearts. We turn instinctively toward our Blessed Mother—and many priests begin...

