Travel & Pilgrimage

‘The Road to Wild Wales’: BBC pilgrimage series returns to explore landscape of early Celtic saints

the north wales pilgrim’s way will feature in the   sixth series of  pilgrimage  that returns to the bbc in march 2024, as&nb...

Pilgrimage standoff: Assisi v. Santiago de Compostela, which comes out on top?

can one commit pilgrimage “adultery”? in the months of planning leading up to taking a group of catholic herald pilgrims along a portion of ...

Pope’s Ash Wednesday address: Remove social media ‘mask’ and ‘enter into the secret’ with God

rome – pope francis told catholics to carve out a silent space for god amid the buzz of the digital era in which little remains private as h...

'Silent Disco' at Canterbury Cathedral leads to more voluble protest

a group of protesters plans to gather outside canterbury cathedral tomorrow evening to “peacefully” object to a dance event being held in th...

The Catholic Herald

Brussels can feel like a city that has abandoned God

working and living in brussels can feel like finding yourself marooned in enemy territory. a friend who once worked there on human rights le...

A Divided Heart: how the pilgrim paths through Austria led me into the Church

the current appreciation of el camino , the pilgrim route to santiago de compostela, is the climb of the pyrenees from south-west france and...

A journey of contrasts: leading Herald pilgrims along the Way of St Francis

on the evening before our motley group of 14 herald pilgrims headed off on our 108 km trek from terni towards assisi, we gathered at a littl...

Kentucky bishop suspends priests devoted to Traditional Latin Mass

new york – a small religious community dedicated to the traditional latin mass in the diocese of covington, kentucky, that once had aspirati...

Chant and sensory overload: Visiting Mount Athos

unlike many who visit athos, my trip was not planned months or years in advance, but instead came about when a friend invited me to join him...

Unexpected Santander Angelus amid echoes of Covid mania

in the bottom-left corner of the cathedral's nave an old priest sat on a wooden chair with a shawl wrapped around his shoulders against the ...