Surely, the least the bishops could do was arrange for Christ, present in the Eucharist, to be processed by and before hundreds of thousands of people in our vast, beautiful, troubled country.
Recently, on my favorite podcast, two priests I respect lamented that the National Eucharistic Congress’ main accomplishment seemed to be the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. They love a good Eucharistic procession, they said, but processions are for the devout. After three years, and at a cost of many millions, was this the best the bishops could do? I’d like to counter that it might be the…
