The Camino de Santiago: A Pilgrimage to Nowhere Without the True Faith
The National Catholic Register (May 12, 2026) publishes a commentary by Zelda Caldwell recounting her five-day journey along the Camino Inglés from Ferrol to Santiago de Santiago de Compostela. She describes the experience as spiritually enriching, marked by daily Mass celebrated by Father David Dufresne, communal prayer, confession, and the reception of a Compostela certificate. Yet beneath the veneer of Catholic piety lies a profoundly troubling omission: the entire narrative unfolds within the framework of the post-conciliar Church—a structure that has abandoned the supernatural mission of the true Church and replaced it with sentimental humanism, horizontal community-building, and ritualistic tourism masquerading as sanctity. This is not a pilgrimage of faith; it is a spiritualized hiking trip through the ruins of Catholic Christendom, orchestrated by men who serve an antipope and celebrate a rite stripped of its sacrificial essence.





