I have watched many pilgrims carrying the Holy Cross and images of the Holy Virgin and saints. I have heard the rosary prayed by different groups in their languages. I have seen the lines for confessions.
Many might attend for tourist purposes but many attend because it is a spiritual gathering.
Is there not room for these young people as well as the Chartres pilgrimage young people?
I have watched many pilgrims carrying the Holy Cross and images of the Holy Virgin and saints. I have heard the rosary prayed by different groups in their languages. I have seen the lines for confessions.
Many might attend for tourist purposes but many attend because it is a spiritual gathering.
Is there not room for these young people as well as the Chartres pilgrimage young people?
There is room for everyone in the Catholic Church.
(Though always on God's terms and not the kind of terms Francis seems to be advocating for).
But Pope Francis does not seem to think there is room for everyone, though - typically -what he says and what he does are far removed from one another.
Fresh from ejecting TLM-attending Catholics from their parish Churches, he announced at WYD that "there is room for everyone".
I do not know about you, but I do not like hypocrites, nor being patronised.
And strange that so many young people are at this event, yet are very conspicuous by their absence in the typical parish Church of today.
I have watched many pilgrims carrying the Holy Cross and images of the Holy Virgin and saints. I have heard the rosary prayed by different groups in their languages. I have seen the lines for confessions.
Many might attend for tourist purposes but many attend because it is a spiritual gathering.
Is there not room for these young people as well as the Chartres pilgrimage young people?
There is room for everyone in the Catholic Church.
(Though always on God's terms and not the kind of terms Francis seems to be advocating for).
But Pope Francis does not seem to think there is room for everyone, though - typically -what he says and what he does are far removed from one another.
Fresh from ejecting TLM-attending Catholics from their parish Churches, he announced at WYD that "there is room for everyone".
I do not know about you, but I do not like hypocrites, nor being patronised.
And strange that so many young people are at this event, yet are very conspicuous by their absence in the typical parish Church of today.