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FaithNews
Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
One of World Youth Day's first event focused on the plight of populations most of the world rarely sees or comes across: the indigenous.
FaithNews
Colleen Dulle
How World Youth Day is changing the church
Politics & SocietyNews
On his trip to Panama for the World Youth Day celebrations, Pope Francis will visit the Las Garzas de Pacora detention center in Las Garzas, which is Panama's main youth lockup. While there, the pope will pray with the inmates, offer a message of peace and reconciliation and will also hear their confessions. This will be the first time Pope Francis has done so on a pilgrimage.
FaithNews
Gerard O’Connell
This year’s W.Y.D takes place less than three months after the conclusion of the Synod for Young People that was held in the Vatican last October.
FaithNews
Nicholas Wolfram Smith
A 2018 study on young adults leaving the Catholic Church found people stopped identifying as Catholics at a median age of 13, long before they ceased attending a parish.
Auxiliary Bishop Robert F. Morneau of Green Bay, Wis., delivers his homily during the 2011 outdoor “Mass on the Grass” welcoming students to the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay. (CNS photo/Sam Lucero, The Compass)
FaithDispatches
Brandon Sanchez
The report examined two distinct approaches to campus ministry. Degree-educated staff tend to emphasize public service, but missionary-trained staff are more likely to focus on students’ personal relationships with God.