Faith, Travel, and the Call to Walk in Christ's Footsteps
The Last 100 Kilometers: Walking the Final Stretch of the Camino
More people walk the last 100 km of the Camino de Santiago than any other stretch of any pilgrim road in Europe, and nearly all...
How to Preach on Mary at the Great Marian Shrines
You are vested in a side chapel at Lourdes at seven in the morning. Forty of your parishioners are in front of you, most of...
Assisi and the Life of St. Francis: A Pilgrimage of Simplicity and Joy
There is a kind of visitor who arrives in Assisi with a camera and a checklist, photographs the frescoes, buys a small wooden Tau cross,...
Leading Your Parish to Assisi: Walking with St. Francis
There are few places in the Catholic world where the call to conversion feels as close to the surface as it does in Assisi. To...
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...
