There are few places in the Catholic world where the call to conversion feels as close to the surface as it does in Assisi. To...

Every Church of the Holy Sepulchre pilgrimage arrives, sooner or later, at a single overwhelming fact: under one roof in Jerusalem stand both the rock...

Ask a priest who has led his people on pilgrimage what changed, and he rarely begins with the sites. He begins with the parish. A...

There is a sound you notice in Medjugorje before you understand it: the long, unhurried quiet of people waiting to confess. Outside St. James Church,...

There is a reason Medjugorje has drawn more than forty million pilgrims in four decades, and it has little to do with sightseeing. People come...

Mary walked this ground before it was anyone’s pilgrimage route—a girl in Nazareth, a young mother on the road to Bethlehem, a grieving woman at...