Alaska’s World Youth Day pilgrims urged to register by end of June
Alaskan pilgrims planning to attend the 2016 World Youth Day gathering with Pope Francis in Poland are being urged to register for the trip by the end of this month.
Daily Archives: June 2015
Sacred sites await spiritual trekkers across Alaska
For millions of Christians, including those in Alaska, summer is spiritual pilgrimage time. But if Alaskan pilgrims can’t make the long journey to Lourdes or the Holy Land, they can still make little pilgrimages — in the Far North. Here, the Catholic Anchor lists a few holy sites in Alaska ripe for spiritual venturing.
“We are all pilgrims,” Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has explained. And that pilgrimage is a “journey to Heaven,” he added – one in which the faithful are on a “perennial mission of proclaiming before the world the saving Gospel of Jesus Christ.”