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The Londoners who come to Aylesford as pilgrims are an impressively polychrome microcosm of Christianity. (Darren Glanville, Creative Commons) I once suggested that if the Roman Catholic Church ever chose a single motto, an excellent candidate might be Iter semper (always traveling). That is particularly true today, when the church in Europe is passing through so many crises and yet is being constantly revived and strengthened by new arrivals. As one representative illustration, look at the popular English pilgrimage site of Aylesford, in Kent. There, in 1240, English Christians imported the Car­melite tradition from the Holy Land and established a house in that order. Ayles­ford was, in a sense, an immigrant foundation. An early prior was Simon Stock, who became a venerated saint. After cen­turies of secular use, the house once again became a pilgrimage destination in the 1950s, at first on a limited scale. The real explosion came at the end of the c

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