It is precisely because of our shared cancer journey that I fondly recall first hearing about Carlo Acutis, whose cause for canonization was opened on Oct. 17, 2012, shortly after I learned my own cancer was in remission.
Pilgrimage
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Join us: A Journey into the Heart and Soul of Ireland
We are delighted to offer you the opportunity to join editor in chief Sam Sawyer, S.J., and literary editor James T. Keane on America’s spring 2026 pilgrimage to Ireland, “The Land of Saints & Scholars: A Journey into the Heart & Soul of Ireland.”
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Relics of soon-to-be saints Carlo Acutis and Giorgio Frassati will be in Rome for Jubilee of Youth
The relics of Blesseds Pier Giorgio Frassati and Carlo Acutis, who are set to be canonized later this year, will be displayed in Rome for the Jubilee of Youth.
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The biggest event of the Jubilee Year: a gathering of half a million young Catholics
Rome is organizing security, hydration stations, portable bathrooms, and giant water cannons to prepare for the influx of young pilgrims coming to celebrate the Jubilee.
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The tireless Jesuit keeping Spain’s St. Ignatius pilgrimage alive
For 13 years, Josep Lluís Iriberri, S.J. has guided pilgrims along the same trail St. Ignatius walked over 500 years ago.
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Holy Land leaders say pilgrimages are ‘safe’ after long-awaited ceasefire in Gaza
Catholic leaders in the Holy Land called on Christian pilgrims to return to the region following the implementation of the long-awaited ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
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St. Peter’s Holy Door sees more than half million pilgrims in two weeks
“This is a very significant beginning,” Archbishop Rino Fisichella, the chief Vatican organizer of the Jubilee Year, said in a statement.
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Synod Diary: Lessons from the Jesuit pilgrimage for the synod slog
The Jesuit’s pilgrimage involves confronting one’s limits, only to discover that God never abandons us even in our sheer exhaustion, despondency and despair. The same is true of the synod process.
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Thousands of pilgrims venerate relic of Blessed Carlo Acutis in Manchester, England
A relic of Blessed Acutis was taken to Manchester for veneration, drawing 5,000 pilgrims in four days of prayer and an all-night vigil.
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Eucharistic pilgrimage planned for 2025, next congress to be held before 2033
A Eucharistic pilgrimage from Indianapolis to Los Angeles is being planned for spring 2025, while congress organizers who had been discerning an 11th National Eucharistic Congress in 2033, are now considering planning the event even sooner.