NEWS, STORIES & EVENTS

Story telling and gatherings have long been important elements of pilgrimage.

This page is for pilgrims to share tales of their adventures past and their plans for the future.

 

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By Phil McCarthy January 19, 2026
News from pilgrimways and plans for 2026!
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By Eddie Gilmore January 6, 2026
Pilgrimage can be life-altering and transformational as this walk to Dover along the Via Francigena demonstrated.
Photograph  of a Christmas card depicting The Adoration of the Magi in the Scrovegni Chapel
By Phil McCarthy January 6, 2026
Happy New Year and a blessed Feast of the Epiphany when we remember the visit of the wise men or Magi to the infant Jesus!
By Phil McCarthy December 22, 2025
I was delighted to be invited to record this brief Advent reflection for the Catholic Bishops' Conference (England and Wales) Wave of Hope series. My focus was the 2025 Jubilee Pilgrimage of Hope.
By Anna FitzPatrick December 19, 2025
The Laudato Si Circle based at Blackfriars in Oxford undertook a pilgrimage for the planet!
By Phil McCarthy December 16, 2025
A pilgrim way in Oxfordshire following St John Henry Newman’s spiritual path.
By John Paul de Quay December 15, 2025
A new resource for those interested in the impact of pilgrimage on the environment.
By Rowan Morton-Gledhill December 15, 2025
This year, the Annual Diocesan St Wilfrid’s Way Pilgrimage was walked for the 10th time!
By Anne E Bailey December 5, 2025
A new video of the Jubilee Pilgrimage of Hope from Anne E Bailey
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By Alex Knox December 3, 2025
Over the last 12 months, Alex Knox walked Britain’s newest pilgrimage with its youngest pilgrim. This is their story.
By Torin Brown December 3, 2025
Torin Brown, Pilgrim Officer at Canterbury Cathedral, asks why pilgrimage still 'packs a spiritual punch' in a secular age.
By Christian Jenkins December 2, 2025
Christian Jenkins describes a the first Our Lady of Christendom pilgrimage in the UK from Tewkesbury Abbey to Evesham!
By Nick Dunne December 1, 2025
The Confraternity of Pilgrims to Rome are delighted to announce the formal recognition of the Francigena Britannica from London to Canterbury, and their annual conference on 14th March 2026!
By Sr MaryAnne Francalanza fcJ November 10, 2025
FCJ Lindisfarne Pilgrimage for Young Adults, 8-12th April 2026. Prayer, reflection, walking and lots of socialising!
By Phil McCarthy November 5, 2025
St John Henry Newman was proclaimed a Doctor of the Church on 1st November 2025. To mark this I walked a pilgrimage to Littlemore in Oxford, arriving on the day of the proclamation.
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