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In 1985, Pope John Paul II announced a new initiative that would go down as a milestone in church history: an international pilgrimage with young people from all over the world.
This pilgrimage was called World Youth Day, and it has become a regular fixture on the Vatican’s calendar.
Following John Paul’s lead, Pope Benedict XVI has continued the tradition of World Youth Day. Not long after becoming pope in 2005, he visited Cologne, Germany, for the twentieth World Youth Day, and this month he will be traveling to Sydney, Australia, to join an estimated 500,000 young people for the twenty-third such event. To honor World Youth Day, we at The Word Among Us want to explore the three letters that Pope Benedict has written to young people since 2005. Taken together, these letters help to set the stage for this year’s gathering, sounding the themes that the Holy Father will emphasize during his pilgrimage.
Because these letters are filled with so many insights, we will focus on only a couple…
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