Tag: World Youth Day

  • August 8, 2023

UPDATE: Don’t be afraid to change the world, pope tells youths at WYD closing Mass

LISBON, Portugal (CNS) -- To end "Catholic Woodstock" -- as World Youth Day has been called by the...
  • August 8, 2023

Pope to young people at WYD: God calls your authentic, not virtual, self

LISBON, Portugal (CNS) -- Before a sea of waving flags representing countries large and small from across the...
  • July 31, 2023

Pope prays for WYD: The church is not a ‘club’ for the elderly

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Catholic Church is not a "club" for the elderly; it needs the participation...
  • May 23, 2023

Pope Francis adds Fátima visit to World Youth Day trip

Pope Francis will visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Fátima during his trip to Portugal for World...
  • May 23, 2023

Vatican reportedly pulls ‘controversial’ World Youth Day stamp

The Vatican has pulled from circulation a World Youth Day stamp of Pope Francis with young people in...
  • May 4, 2023

World Youth Day prep advice from pope: speak to your grandparents

Just under three months before World Youth Day gets underway in Lisbon, Portugal, Pope Francis said young people...
  • January 20, 2023

‘Open your hearts to other cultures,’ pope tells young people

Pope Francis told young people to always "look to the horizon" and open their hearts to other peoples...
  • September 13, 2022

Young must hasten to share God’s love, pope says in WYD message

Like Mary, who after the Annunciation went in haste to visit her cousin Elizabeth, young Catholics are called...
  • September 27, 2021

Be prophets of ‘hope-filled future,’ pope tells young people

The world needs prophets and true witnesses of hope in a time of uncertainty and trial, Pope Francis...