Faith guides Catholic pilgrims to historic New Mexico sites
United StatesAP Thousands of Catholics are making the trek to a historic adobe church in the hills of northern New Mexico as part of a Holy Week tradition that spans generations, carrying heavy wooden crosses and praying as they make their way through the high desert landscape. El Santuario de Chimayó just north of Santa […]
Pilgrim economics: Camino travellers help rural Spain’s emptying villages survive
GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO, of Associated Press, reports on how pilgrims are saving dozens of small villages from disappearing…
Postcards: Spain’s Rocío pilgrimage party returns after COVID hiatus
JOAN MATEU PARRA, of Associated Press, reports on the return of a “riotously colourful and ancient festival” in southern Andalucía…
Essay: For many Australians, Anzac Day has been defined by a pilgrimage to Gallipoli. Can we mark the day differently?
In an article first published on The Conversation, BRAD WEST, a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of South Australia, looks at how Anzac Day commemorations have evolved…
Wow!: A “different form” – how technology has opened the door to ‘virtual pilgrimages’
ANGELA YOUNGMAN speaks with Victoria Preston about the inspiration behind her book, ‘We are Pilgrims: Journeys in search of ourselves’…
Romania’s biggest Catholic service offers faith, vaccines
Miercurea Ciuc, Romania AP More than 35,000 Roman Catholic pilgrims congregated Saturday at an open-air shrine in Romania for a centuries-old procession that was cancelled last year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The service in Sumuleu Ciuc, located in Romania’s Transylvania region, is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and dates back more than 450 years. […]
Intention can turn any lockdown walk into pilgrimage, urges British Pilgrimage Trust
RNS You may be able to point to the exact moment this week or the next when the COVID-19 pandemic upended your everyday life. Put more succinctly: when taking a daily walk became for many of us a great escape, a way to get some fresh air and movement. Some have made lockdown walks an institution: “walktail” parties in […]
Sight-Seeing: How to make a pilgrimage into 2021
WES GRANBERG-MICHAELSON, former general secretary of the Reformed Church in America and author of ‘Without Oars: Casting Off Into a Life of Pilgrimage’ reflects on the idea of pilgrimage as we enter a new year…
Catholic Church cancels Guadalupe pilgrimage over pandemic
Mexico City, MexicoAP Mexico’s Roman Catholic Church announced the cancellation Monday of what’s considered the world’s largest Catholic pilgrimage, for the Virgin of Guadalupe, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Mexico’s Episcopal Conference said in a statement that the basilica will be closed from 10th to 13th December. The Virgin is celebrated on 12th December and […]
In Christmas message, Pope Francis calls on Vatican officials to embrace change
Vatican CityRNS As the decade comes to an end, Pope Francis focused on change – of all sorts – during his 21st December Christmas speech to the cardinals and heads of the Vatican departments that make up the Roman Curia. “Christian life is a journey, a pilgrimage. The history of the Bible is a journey, marked by […]