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By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY — In a world suffering from “diseases of the soul,” like pride, hatred and violence, the young people who traveled to Portugal for World Youth Day showed that another way of living and interacting is possible, Pope Francis said. World Youth Day was not a vacation, but “an encounter with the living Christ […]
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By Lucia A. Silecchia
This past month, I have read with interest many accounts of World Youth Day and the experiences shared by my younger sisters and brothers in Christ as hundreds of thousands of them experienced their pilgrimage to Portugal. Although I am an avid letter writer, I cannot write hundreds of thousands of letters to welcome each […]
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John Horejsi, founder of Social Action Linking Together (SALT), died of cancer Aug. 4. at age 83. Horejsi was born June 9, 1940, in Bechyn, Minn., the fourth son of Anton Wenceslaus Sr. and Ann Frank Horejsi. He was the first in his family to attend college and graduated from the University of Minnesota with […]
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By Almudena Martínez-Bordiú
Francisco Velarde, a 21-year-old Spaniard, was one of the young people who had the privilege of going to confession with Pope Francis Aug. 4 at World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal. A few hours later, and still “in a cloud,” he told ACI Prensa, CNA’s Spanish-language news partner, the details of what he considers “the […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
LISBON, Portugal — To end “Catholic Woodstock” — as World Youth Day has been called by the Portuguese press — Pope Francis told 1.5 million weary-eyed and sleep-deprived young people in Lisbon not to let their “great dreams” of changing the world be “stopped by fear.” In his homily for the closing Mass of World […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM PORTUGAL — After a five-day trip to Portugal, which recently came to terms with its own clerical sex abuse crisis, Pope Francis said the Catholic Church must abandon its practice of covering up abuse and instead be “very open” about how it is confronting the crime. During a news conference […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
LISBON, Portugal — Pope Francis asked the 1.5 million young people who attended World Youth Day to take “what God has sown into your hearts” back to their home countries and build a joyful church that is open to all. Young pilgrims interviewed during World Youth Day constantly returned to the pope’s main point during […]
Pope Francis
By Justin McLellan
LISBON, Portugal — Young people were going to confession on street corners and park benches throughout Lisbon during World Youth Day, but in the 150 plywood confessionals set up in Vasco da Gama Garden three of them found themselves face to face with Pope Francis. Donning a purple stole, the pope heard their confessions Aug. […]
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By Hannah Brockhaus
“When you preach the real Christ, not a watered-down Christ, it lights a fire in people,” Bishop Robert Barron said to applause from tens of thousands of young people at a World Youth Day gathering in Lisbon, Portugal, on Wednesday evening. The event, hosted by the U.S. bishops’ conference, culminated in a eucharistic procession and […]
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