The Heart of the Pilgrimage

| 05/4/2023

By: Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan

Cardinal Dolan speaks to us before Mass in Lourdes, where about 1,000 people are gathered to celebrate.

Many of these are the sick, under the care of the women and men of the Sovereign Order of Malta accompanying them on the pilgrimage to Lourdes.

Initiated as a fundraiser for the Wounded Warrior Project, the club has evolved significantly over the past decade.

“The scapular has been for us our bandage,” Bishop Gerardo Colacicco said in his homily.

At an elaborate ceremony on August 15, 1858, Archbishop John Hughes blessed the cornerstone of the new St. Patrick's Cathedral.