Pilgrimage

Le Puy-en-Velay: France’s little Jerusalem

James Jeffrey visits Le Puy-en-Velay, where the atmosphere of departure, devotion and deep history shapes the opening steps of the Camino

Pilgrims flock to Assisi as relics of St Francis are unveiled

More than 100,000 pilgrims have passed through the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi during the first week of the first public exposition of the saint’s mortal remains in 800 years

The Catholic Herald

Encouraging one another in dark times

In a season of post-festive gloom and social atomisation, the Epistle to the Hebrews offers a quietly radical command