Roman Pilgrimage with George Weigel

Join us for this Lenten book event. Take a spiritual and aesthetic journey, as the beauty of the station churches leads to reflection on the deepest truths of Christianity.

The annual Lenten pilgrimage to dozens of Rome’s most striking churches is a sacred tradition dating back almost two millennia, to the earliest days of Christianity. Along this historic spiritual pathway, today’s pilgrims confront the mysteries of the Christian faith through a program of biblical and early Christian readings amplified by some of the greatest art and architecture of western civilization.

In Roman Pilgrimage, bestselling theologian and papal biographer George Weigel, art historian Elizabeth Lev, and photographer Stephen Weigel lead readers through this unique religious and aesthetic journey with magnificent photographs and revealing commentaries on the pilgrimage’s liturgies, art, and architecture. Through reflections on each day’s readings about faith and doubt, heroism and weakness, self-examination and conversion, sin and grace, Rome’s familiar sites take on a new resonance. And along that same historical path, typically unexplored treasures—artifacts of ancient history and hidden artistic wonders—appear in their original luster, revealing new dimensions of one of the world’s most intriguing and multi-layered cities.

A compelling guide to the Eternal City, the Lenten Season, and the itinerary of conversion that is Christian life throughout the year, Roman Pilgrimage reminds readers that the imitation of Christ through faith, hope, and love is the template of all true discipleship, as the exquisite beauty of the Roman station churches invites reflection on the deepest truths of Christianity.

George Weigel

George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of Washington’s Ethics and Public Policy Center and Vatican analyst for NBC News. The author of more than twenty books, including Evangelical Catholicism and The Courage to Be Catholic, he lives in North Bethesda, Maryland.

Stephen Weigel

Stephen Weigel is a professional photographer and the principal of Stephen Weigel Photography.

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