"The way is the goal"

Headline in an article about pilgrimage in Bildpost, (which describes itself as independent and Christian, in fact mostly Catholic) sums up much of the confusion in the modern Church. The goals of pilgrimage are the great churches with their once richly privileged altars, not the stony roads to them. (Privileged altars were abandoned in the 1968 reform of indulgences).

See also Raccolta of Indulgences.