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 credentials were well and truly forged in Spain on the famous Camino de Santiago. My first Camino back in 2017 was a life changing experience, and one that then again came to my rescue during the pandemic and lockdowns by offering me a way out of the madness. I owe a great deal to Saint James—in addition to him being my namesake—and to the Camino and to Spain.
