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A traveller waiting for luggage in an airport terminalBefore You Travel

Before You Travel: What to Pack, What to Expect, Who to Call

Everything in the final travel letter that does not change from trip to trip: documents, luggage, packing, money, insurance, the shape of the days, and the numbers to call.September 18, 2026Aerial view of the Sanctuary of Fátima filled with pilgrimsNews and Trip Reports

Rome, Lourdes and Fatima with Patrick Madrid

Patrick and Nancy Madrid are home from Rome, Lourdes and Fatima with more than 180 pilgrims across four coaches. His own account of it, and photographs from the road.September 10, 2026Wooden statue of Our Lady of AkitaFaith and Formation

A Visit to Sister Agnes, the Marian Prophet of Our Lady of Akita

Fr. Elias Mary Mills on a 2023 visit to Sister Agnes Sasagawa in her care home outside Akita, the seer of the weeping statue, and the questions that still surround her silence.September 10, 2026The Holy Door at St Peter's Basilica in Rome, opened for the Jubilee YearNews and Trip Reports

The Holy Doors Open Once in Twenty-Five Years: The 2025 Jubilee Pilgrimage to Rome

In February 2025 the Diocese of Tucson travelled to Rome for the Jubilee with Bishop Kicanas and Deacon Al Gallardo, to walk through the Holy Doors and pray at the tombs of Peter and Paul.September 10, 2026Oura Church in NagasakiNews and Trip Reports

Fifteen Days in Catholic Japan: Looking Back on the April 2026 Pilgrimage

Bishop Kicanas and Deacon Ed Sheffer led fifteen days through Catholic Japan in April 2026: Tokyo, Akita and Nagasaki, the Twenty-Six Martyrs, and the Hidden Christians who kept the faith for 250 years without a priest.September 10, 2026The Basilica of St. Therese at Lisieux in springNews and Trip Reports

Pilgrimage to Portugal, Spain and France with Bishop Kicanas and Deacon Ed

Bishop Gerald Kicanas and Deacon Ed Sheffer lead a pilgrimage through Portugal, Spain and France, praying at the Marian shrines and sacred sites that have drawn pilgrims for centuries.September 10, 2026Mount Fuji beyond a pagoda and cherry blossomFaith and Formation

The Mission of the Immaculate in Japan

Fr. Elias Mary Mills on the Miraculous Medal in Japanese, a translation that briefly promised a miraculous fish, and the Missionaries of Charity who now carry the medals to the homeless along the Arakawa River.September 10, 2026The Rosary Basilica at Lourdes in the eveningFaith and Formation

Pilgrimages Meet Our Soul’s Need for Peace, Quiet, and Strength

Dan Burke on why the practice of pilgrimage has waned, and what a holy journey does that daily prayer alone cannot: break the pattern, quiet the noise, and renew our ability to hear God’s voice.September 10, 2026The Great Sphinx and the pyramids at GizaNews and Trip Reports

The Land of Ra

Deacon Ed Sheffer leads twenty-eight pilgrims through Egypt: the Holy Family’s refuge at Abu Serga, the lighthouse city where St. Mark brought the faith, a Nile cruise, and Mass in a church carved under Garbage City.September 9, 2026Mount Fuji beyond cherry blossomNews and Trip Reports

The Rising Son

Deacon Ed Sheffer on leading a pilgrimage through Japan: the tail of cherry blossom season, the hidden Christians of Nagasaki, and a Church of 430,000 whose witness reaches far beyond its numbers.September 9, 2026