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SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, Spain — U.S. pilgrims made up the largest international group walking the famous Camino to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, in 2023. The Camino de Santiago, or Way of St. James, welcomed over 32,000 American visitors in a record year for the ancient pilgrimage site. Interest in the Camino de Santiago — a
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Echoes is the opinion section of TheBostonPilot.com. The Boston Pilot is a daily news Catholic newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts, covering news and opinion about the Catholic Church and Catholic life. We carry daily news from Boston, New England, US, the Vatican, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Central and Latin America. The Boston Pilot is part of the Pilot Media Group, America's oldest Catholic newspaper and the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston.
(CAN) -- Peter of Morrone was an unusual choice for pope. He was not a cardinal, for one, but a Benedictine monk and hermit living in a remote mountainous cave. He was also around 80 years of age. But the Church's 11 living cardinals had spent more than two years in a stalemate over the new pope's election. So when the saintly Peter delivered to the cardinals the message that God would punish them for any further delays -- his name was put forward, and soon after, on July 5, 1294, a cons
Kilkenny's Camino walk offers an insight into the Spanish pilgrimage