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Testimonies from the field suggest that in a context of multiple crises for the Church, this week of celebrations and gatherings breathed new life into the institution and its flock around the world.
World Youth Day surpassed expectations last week with 1.5 million pilgrims joining Pope Francis for the closing Mass Aug. 6 in Lisbon. Blogger and WYD pilgrim Kevin McCartney and Father Sean Conroy join us now to talk about their experience. Then we turn to another summer blockbuster — ‘Barbie,’ which made history as the first film solely directed by a woman to surpass $1 billion in global box office sales. Register writer Meghan Schultz offers her take on the film.
In Portugal, where religious freedom is strongly supported, some pilgrims visited other places of worship, eager to better understand and define their own beliefs.
4 reflections on the initial impacts of WYD in Lisbon
COMMENTARY: The Holy Father chose Aug. 5 for his visit to Fatima to link two of the great Marian shrines of the world.
In our Editors’ Corner, Jeanette DeMelo and Matthew Bunson take a closer look at World Youth Day as hundreds of thousands of young people gather in Lisbon, Portugal. Also, Lauretta Brown joins us to discuss the latest White House challenges to U.S. abortion policy.
Bishop Nuno Brás da Silva Martins, the vice-president of the Commission of Bishops’ Conferences of the EU, discusses the evangelizing potential of the global meeting in Lisbon.
COMMENTARY: World Youth Day Lisbon is an appropriate time to reflect on the 1983 visit of Pope John Paul II to Częstochowa.
With French WYD pilgrims 40,000 strong, the bishop of Nanterre, where a wave of violent riots started in France at the end of June, discusses some of the challenges facing today’s youth.
Popes John Paul II and Francis have echoed and amplified Our Lord’s call to be salt of the earth and light of the world.
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