I am not a Catholic, though I have probably been to more Catholic masses in French, Spanish and Italian during my various pilgrimage adventures of the last few years than services in my "home church" of English Methodism.
However I suggest that...
Pope Francis understands pilgrimage as Christian pilgrimage, as already pointed out.
As I said, take the articles in the various languages as a whole to better understand what he talks about. He doesn’t talk about silence to find onself and who...
The responses above sadden me beyond, well beyond, my ability to respond to what they have written ...
Have modern humans gone so far in lack of humility and awareness of other? Is the modern world so lost and ego-centric that people can go on...
LOVE this comment, especially from you!!!! Thankfully the pilgrimage will outlive whatever fad says the world needs to be partying along it at this stage in its existence. 👍👍
Well it is the core business of the catholic Church? We can or cannot agree with it but those are the rules of the " club " so here we are.
On a personal level you might find it nonsense but we can at least find a common ground and accept that...
It's now seven weeks since I returned from doing he Frances and what a wonderful 40 days it was. I'm sure there are possible pilgrims out there that worry that they may be too old to walk the camino, but I can assure you there is no age barrier...
I’ll bang on on this until I get bored. Then I’ll stop.
You use the internet; you have a mobile phone; you use banks and credit cards; you use tap&go; you use Farcebook, Berking.con, Instagrab, you pay local property taxes, are a library card...
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