World Youth Day, Sydney

Sydney has never seen anything like it since the Olympics. Not even that event, however, could match the spectacle of a papal ‘boatacade’ gliding past the bridge and the opera house to deliver Pope Benedict into the cheering embrace of 200,000 young people from around the world. The Pope’s arrival at World Youth Day had … Read more

225000 Expected At World Youth Day 2008

  World Youth Day 2008 is a Catholic youth festival that will be held from July 15 to July 20 in Sydney, Australia. The 23rd of the World Youth Day celebrations, it will be attended by Pope Benedict XVI. The occasion will mark only the fourth Papal visit to the country. WYD 2008 will be … Read more