Numbers Don’t Lie….

(Above) Pilgrims enduring the terrible weather of last Saturday. (Photo:Renaissance Catholique)

The 40th “Pilgrimage of Christendom” ended successfully Monday despite all the adversities of this year – from the weather and otherwise. A record number of pilgrims (at least 15,000) participated. For a report see:

Les miracles de Chartres

Now, as many of us know, on the same Pentecost weekend a pilgrimage organized by the FSSPX travels in the opposite direction – Chartres to Paris. This pilgrimage unfortunately had to be cancelled because of the storm’s effect on their camping grounds. The organizers report 4,000 were underway at the time of cancellation.

Communiqué aux valeureux pèlerins

For a more detailed report on the FSSPX pilgrimage(with dramatic pictures of the storm):

Un pèlerinage hors norme 

Now on May 29 another event ended – the German Catholic Congress (Katholikentag). This is an event organized with the full support of the German Catholic Church – indeed, most of the participants are members of Church organizations in one way or another (in that respect it resembles the L.A. Religious Education conference). As always it is a celebration of Catholic progressivism – focusing on environmentalism, the syndodal path, female clergy, LGBTQ, Ukraine, sexual abuse, etc. The Congress’s materials are written in a nearly illegible German using “gender-neutral” forms. Most of the funding for this conference comes directly or indirectly from the German government. Yet despite all this massive support by State and Church, the number of attendeees of the full Congress this year was disastrously low – around 19,000 (including 7,000 engaged in some official capacity in the Congress itself):

Nach dem Katholikentag: Zeitansage für eine krisenhafte Kirche

Der Katholikentag braucht ein kompakteres Format

( “The Katholikentag cost 10 million Euro – mostly funded by the government.” “Since the pandemic the number of those who attend church has dropped by half.“)

19,000 at the Katholikentag of the German Catholic establishment and its allied progressive forces – compared to at least 19,000 walking the two Chartres pilgrimages of Tradition. Numbers don’t lie……