I have been annoyed with this all too common misconception since the 1990s.
From a Catholic perspective, and certainly in what I understand from these remarks by the Pope, a foot pilgrimage is from Parish to Parish to Parish and is rooted in not...
Yes, thank you and in the interim I was able to go to read the French and the English...
I thought of putting the German title into a translator but I think it probably would not help me... anyway, I've had the larger picture through other means.
You may well have said so for many years but just to be clear: this is not in the address that Pope Francis gave in this audience of 19 December and what the quoted article refers to.
There is nothing that one can detect in the text of his...
A little lighter story. My wife and I walked the CF in 2017 as a pilgrimage. We are Catholic and went to every possible pilgrim Mass. For me two of the highlights of the trip were being asked to read at the service in Rabanal and at the English...
Just for the record: I deeply love and respect Pope Francis.
Yeah, there's a lot of noise and distraction on the Caminos in high season, especially the Frances.
But underneath all the plastic souvenirs and billboards and "must-sees" is a...
It is surprising to me that those who I have disagreed with or even had disagreements with in the past are the ones I agree with the most. It never surprises me how almost fiercely people hold on to their ideas about the Camino and often are the...
Some marvellous responses in this thread .. but I think there is a common error re 'silence' ... spiritual silence is internal therefore one can be surrounded by all sorts of sounds without it having any adverse effect.
I have friends who do...
Actually in "wilderness" Canada, in British Columbia, we also have some wild routes for which you have to get a permit and take your turn.
For example: the Bowron Lakes, a canoe route where you've had to do this for 30 or 40 years, and the West...
I did not mean in the early days of the revival, so much as in the earliest ethos of the locals always making sure there would be a bed, followed by economic pressures that could have seen *nothing but* comfy infrastructure being built as the era...
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