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Maria Wiering is the Senior Writer for OSV News.

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Pilgrims walk along a road towards Sts. Peter and Paul in Petersburg, Iowa, May 24, 2024. (OSV News photo/courtesy National Eucharistic Pilgrimage)

National pilgrimage leaders urge large procession turnouts to counter anti-Catholic protesters

Maria Wiering|Jun 3, 2025|4 Min Read

A chaplain for the perpetual pilgrims along the St. Katherine Drexel route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage prays before the Eucharist during a Holy Hour May 28, 2025, at St. Ambrose Cathedral in Des Moines, Iowa. (OSV News photo/Anne Marie Cox, Diocese of Des Moines)

National pilgrimage carries the Eucharist to Midwest cathedrals and along cow fields

Maria Wiering|May 29, 2025|5 Min Read

Pilgrims on the western Serra Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage process through the Diocese of Salt Lake City May 31-June 5, 2024. On March 4, 2025, National Eucharistic Congress Inc. announced the "perpetual pilgrims" of the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage's Drexel Route. The route is scheduled to begin May 18 following a Mass of thanksgiving in Indianapolis. It will cover several Southwestern states and end in Los Angeles on the feast of Corpus Christi June 22. (OSV News photo/Anthony Mazur, courtesy National Eucharistic Revival)

Pilgrimage launch coincides with papal inauguration, marks young Catholic's 'radical yes'

Maria Wiering|May 15, 2025|8 Min Read

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, appears on the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican May 8, 2025, following his election during the conclave. (OSV News/Claudia Greco, Reuters)

Pope Leo XIV, an American pope: White Sox fan, Villanova grad

Maria Wiering|May 9, 2025|10 Min Read

Pope Francis greets Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, in the library of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican April 18, 2024. Pope Francis, formerly Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, died April 21, 2025, at age 88. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

US bishops honor Pope Francis' legacy in hours after his death

Maria Wiering|Apr 21, 2025|12 Min Read

Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville, Texas, is pictured during the 2017 Catholic Convocation in Orlando, Fla. (OSV News photo/CNS file, Bob Roller)

Faith

'The heart is where things are pulled together': Bishop Flores on pope's latest encyclical

Maria Wiering|Apr 10, 2025|5 Min Read

Then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick arrives for Ash Wednesday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in this Feb. 13, 2013, file photo. (Paul Haring/CNS)

Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick dies at age 94

Maria Wiering and Angelus News|Apr 4, 2025|5 Min Read

A young and relaxed Pope John Paul II answers questions from young people during a 1987 teleconference in Los Angeles. He was canonized on April 27, 2014. (OSV News photo/Joe Rimkus Jr.)

St. John Paul II's worldview spreads to new generations via camping, YouTube, travel

Maria Wiering|Mar 28, 2025|6 Min Read

Perpetual Pilgrim Charlie McCullough prays during Mass May 19, 2024, at San Pedro Church in Brownsville, Texas, at the end of the first day of pilgrims' journey along the St. Juan Diego Route of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. McCullough is the team lead of the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage from Indianapolis to Los Angeles. (OSV News photo/Tom McCarthy)

Pilgrims look forward to bringing Eucharist across Southwest, including wildfire-recovering LA

Maria Wiering|Mar 24, 2025|5 Min Read

Flannery O'Connor is seen in this 1962 photo. From March 21-23, 2025, a museum in Savannah, Ga., dedicated to her literary genius and fascinating personality is celebrating the centennial of her birth with socials, specialty tours, author talks and a live band, culminating in an annual birthday party event that will include vendors, games and an O'Connor look-alike contest. (OSV News photo/AP Photo, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Joe McTyre via PBS)

Flannery O'Connor's 100th birthday parties celebrate author's quirks, talents -- and love of birds

Maria Wiering|Mar 19, 2025|5 Min Read

The perpetual pilgrims who will walk from Indianapolis to San Diego in the 2025 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage May 18-June 22 are pictured in this screenshot taken March 4, 2025. (OSV News screenshot/courtesy of National Eucharistic Pilgrimage)

8 pilgrims set to share faith on Eucharistic pilgrimage from Indianapolis to LA

Maria Wiering|Mar 4, 2025|3 Min Read

The faithful depart the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception June 8, 2024, as they follow the Blessed Sacrament in procession through the streets of the Brookland neighborhood of Washington. The procession was held as the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage's Seton Route made a stop in the Archdiocese of Washington as it makes its way to Indianapolis for the National Eucharistic Congress to be held in July. (OSV News photo/Mihoko Owada, Catholic Standard)

10-state National Eucharistic Pilgrimage to go right through Iowa's 'Field of Dreams'

Maria Wiering|Feb 18, 2025|3 Min Read

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