These versions are not direct, word for word translations of the Pope’s talk to Italian Pilgrims and can emphasize a slightly different perspective.
The German Version adds in a paragraph about “Der Leiter des Zentrums für Islamische Theologie...
Not at all. As one can see from the background information and context (there is a link to the Pope’s actual short speech), he says very little about the Camino de Santiago as such - just that the numbers walking have significantly increased...
While some may perceive from their perspective that walking from Sarria to SdC is too easy, noisy, untenable and distracting, many walkers have said they felt called to do the Camino, but only had a week and started in Sarria. I have been...
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...
Not a charity as such but doing charitable work: they are a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men. Members of this clerical congregation are popularly known as 'Guanelliani' (or Guanellians, in English) (Source...
My First CF from St Jon was solo. Helped and talked to others but had a lot of time for introspection. Brierly talks about the spiritual path and the physical one. He even spent time discussing the spiritual one.
I found the silence when on my...
Yes, just be nice to people… and I appreciate you keeping an eye on the thread content, but as long as we are discussing not religion per se, but rather the matter of a code for travellers and those who host them, I hope we can persist a little...
The logic argument seems to work in the Pope's favor and what he says is true. The route IS a Catholic Pilgrimage...period. Those that are not Catholic and choose to walk it should be respectful. They don't have to partake in the pilgrim...
A very different time. I was grilled at both ends of the Camino. In SJPDP I was refused a credencial partly because I arrived without a letter of introduction from a Catholic priest and was not a member of a recognised confraternity. The priests...
The Camino is an ancient pilgrimage route. But not everyone who walks is Catholic or even uses bibles in their religion. Some are atheists. Remember that, Pope Francis was specifically, addressing Italian Catholics! What if The Pope had been...
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