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The 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage, whose theme is “One Nation Under God,” arrived in Washington this past weekend. A national blessing took place near the Washington Monument.

The pilgrimage, which began in St. Augustine, Florida, on May 24, will continue to wind its way up the Eastern states to New England, and then back to the south, before concluding in Philadelphia on July 5.

Cardinal Michael Czerny, S.J., the prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, returned to his native Czech Republic to celebrate the June 6 Mass of beatification of Fathers Jan Bula and Václav Drbola.

Father Drbola was martyred in 1952, and Father Bula in 1951, under the Czechoslovakian Communist regime.

“Blessed Jan and Václav call us not to sell truth for comfort or to avoid conflict, not to exchange faith for the approval of others, not to choose silence where witness should be given, not to sacrifice conscience for comfort, career, or conformism,” said Cardinal Czerny, whose family fled Czechoslovakia for Canada when he was an infant.

Thousands of the faithful processed through the streets of Portland, Oregon, for a Corpus Christi procession on June 7.

The Oregonian published 68 photographs of the procession, which followed a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Alexander Sample.