By Jonah McKeown, Peter Pinedo CNA Staff, Mar 12, 2024 / 15:30 pm A group of two dozen young Catholic pilgrims will walk thousands of miles across the United States this summer, carrying Jesus Christ in the Eucharist through city streets and the countryside, converging at the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress.  Collectively, the …

By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Jan 3, 2024 / 16:00 pm Pilgrims walking the famous Camino de Santiago have reached a new record. In 2023, nearly half a million people from around the world hiked this historic route. According to the statistics released by the pilgrims office, 446,035 pilgrims arrived at the …

By Marinella Bandini Jerusalem, Nov 26, 2023 / 06:00 am The strands of lights are falling down one after another, forming a kind of curtain of threads in front of the Basilica of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Following the municipality’s decision to suspend Christmas events and remove decorations, workers are busy dismantling the …

By Matthew Santucci Vatican City, Nov 1, 2023 / 17:50 pm More than 1,000 pilgrims gathered in Rome for an annual three-day pilgrimage for those devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass held Oct. 27–29. The Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage takes its name from Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 apostolic letter Summorum Pontficum, which granted …

By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 24, 2023 / 11:51 am About 100 Catholics walked a 12-mile-long pilgrimage from Silver Spring, Maryland, to the St. John Paul II National Shrine in northeast Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Oct. 21, to honor his feast day (Oct. 22) and to mark the 45th anniversary of …

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Oct 19, 2023 / 12:30 pm Father Björn Lundberg was looking forward to his trip to Israel. A parish priest of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, Lundberg hadn’t set foot in the Holy Land since last going on pilgrimage there in 2009. After 14 years, he …

By Jonah McKeown CNA Staff, Oct 14, 2023 / 06:00 am Most Catholics wanting to make a pilgrimage of double- or triple-digit mileage may think they need to take a plane overseas to somewhere like Spain or France. But one pilgrimage group has found the perfect route for a stateside long-distance …

By Francesca Pollio Fenton Denver, Colo., Aug 23, 2023 / 14:53 pm Irish-American Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York celebrated Mass at a “Mass rock” in Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland, during a pilgrimage with roughly 40 people from the Archdiocese of New York on Aug. 21. Dolan shared in a video …

By Jonah McKeown St. Louis, Mo., Aug 17, 2023 / 14:15 pm A new initiative from the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, aims to bring pilgrims to every corner of the state to visit its many adoration chapels. Dubbed the “Eucharistic Passport Pilgrimage,” the diocesan initiative is modeled after the Nebraska Passport, a project …

By Jonah McKeown, Joe Bukuras CNA Newsroom, Aug 9, 2023 / 15:45 pm Tens of thousands of American pilgrims traveled to Lisbon, Portugal, for World Youth Day Aug. 1–6, a trip some attendees called “a dream,” “a blessing,” and “incredible.” World Youth Day, a global event for young people that takes place …