Last Thursday I listened to a talk by Ailsa Piper and Fr Tony Doherty about the Camino in Spain and the book "Sinning Across Spain" that Ailsa has written.
Ailsa had already walked the Camino Frances, and she then read about a medieval practice of paying people to walk a pilgrimage on behalf of them. She planned to walk the Camino for a second time, this time from Granada to Santiago. Before leaving, she published an advertisement asking people for sins they would like her to carry for them.
I had the impression that Ailsa expected this to be lighthearted, but she was surprised to receive extremely serious and personal descriptions of sins and also surprised by the effect of her pilgrimage on some of these people. Food for thought.
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