The Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board discusses the significant upcoming National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, emphasizing its role as a profound, nation-spanning event that allows for deep spiritual engagement and community participation. The pilgrimage, unprecedented in its scale, involves four routes converging in Indianapolis,
Surrounded by the chaos of tourists visiting the Eternal City, 17 college students sought to escape the secular world of Rome.
They were not there for the sights, but for a weeklong pilgrimage focused on walking in the footsteps of saints and deepening
As Jesus prepared to enter his Passion, he climbed 28 stairs to meet Pontius Pilate. Two thousand years later, pilgrims from across the world travel to Rome to venerate and prayerfully ascend the stairs, meditating on the Passion and death of the
In March 2017, Will Peterson and his friend David Cable stepped out Peterson's front door in Lexington, Kentucky, to begin a pilgrimage. Their destination was the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani, some 70 miles away.
The journey is 75 minutes by car along the
During a recent pilgrimage to Mexico City, Father Patrick Briscoe had the opportunity to climb Tepayac Hill, where Our Lady of Guadalupe had appeared to St. Juan Diego hundreds of years ago. While he had prepared for the pilgrimage in other ways,
On May 18-19, groups of eight young adults will leave San Francisco; New Haven, Connecticut; San Juan, Texas; and Itasca State Park in Minnesota.
For eight weeks they'll travel, mostly on foot, along four routes through major U.S. cities, small towns and countryside
There’s something in the very nature of Italian hill towns that seems designed to create saints. OSV publisher Scott Richert explains that the very reality of having to walk uphill both ways as one goes about one’s daily life in Assisi slows
Cardinal Fernando Filoni, grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, an ancient chivalric order of the Catholic Church rooted in the Holy Land, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land as a sign of peace and dialogue
U.S. pilgrims made up the largest international group walking the famous Camino to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in 2023. The Camino de Santiago, or Way of St. James, welcomed over 32,000 American visitors in a record year for the ancient pilgrimage site.
Sharing the pilgrimage experience with people with disabilities is a testament to the Catholic Church's ability to accompany all of its members and to proclaim the Gospel by caring for others, Pope Francis said.
Meeting at the Vatican Dec. 14 with a delegation