As Modern Catholic Pilgrim’s website declares, “Pilgrimage is for everyone, everywhere.” “You don’t need to have an advanced degree or a deep spiritual life,” Peterson told the Register.

Photo by Todd Hambleton / Postmedia The old cross also weighed 1,600 pounds, but the new one is half as heavy atop what is the third St. Andrews Catholic Church at the historic site.

The music ranged from the solemn hymn “Holy God, We Praise Thy Name” to contemporary, electronic-infused music that more resembled that of an evangelical megachurch than of a Mass songbook.

A 20-foot, 800-pound cross that has traveled to almost 50 European capitals, known as the “Cross of Gratitude,” has recently been welcomed by a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church in Shenandoah ...