The Catholic Church held what is being termed as the first online pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. Earlier this spring, for the first time in its 162-year existence the ...

Erasmus, writing in the early 16th century, provided a scathing critique of the waning, often abusive practice of Christian pilgrimage in his day. Never theless, he wrote: “If any shall do it of their ...

Walk is open to all and will "reclaim" Wilgils, a hermit who lived on the East Yorkshire coast.

BERLIN (RNS) — A dozen walkers, many of them retirees in wool hats and fleece jackets, gathered in a silent circle in the Grunewald forest, just outside Berlin. “Walk silently through nature and ...

To have a true Christian pilgrimage experience along the Camino de Santiago -- the popular pilgrimage in northern Spain that leads to the tomb of St. James -- pilgrims must cultivate silence, prayer ...

Pedro Gutierrez said he didn’t know much about the Way of St. James, a centuries-old Christian pilgrimage in Spain, when the priest from his parish in Gilbert, Arizona, invited him and others to go.

As we write this in mid-September, we are seeing the end of the “Bandra Feast,” a week to fifteen days of prayer, devotions, and fun-filled commercial activity in an upmarket suburb of Mumbai. The ...

On the weekend on which the Catholic Church celebrates Pentecost — remembering how, filled with the Holy Spirit, the first disciples left the Upper Room, where Jesus had celebrated the first Eucharist ...