Ukrainian Catholics Recall Warm Reception at World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon
The support shown in Lisbon ‘is something that we will keep in our hearts and bring to our families.’
The support shown in Lisbon ‘is something that we will keep in our hearts and bring to our families.’
Italian Bishop Luca Raimondi said that ‘the Pope and Luca’s mother cried together.’
The newspaper La Prensa reported that in recent months the dictatorship of Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, has denied entry to Nicaragua “to more than half a dozen priests and lay people, most of them Nicaraguan citizens.”
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.
WYD will confirm the Catholic communities in Asia in their faith.
Father Peter Stilwell, who is in charge of the Committee for Ecumenical Dialogue in the Lisbon Patriarchate, told the National Catholic Register that “just because interreligious dialogue is difficult doesn’t mean that it can’t happen.”
Bishop Valério, a member of the Missionaries of the Company of Mary for more than three decades, has been bishop of the Military Ordinariate of Portugal since the end of 2018.
Floridian Savannah Dudzik, 22, said that one of the most memorable moments from her trip to World Youth Day was seeing Pope Francis up close.
The husband said beforehand the couple had watched a lot of videos on Instagram about traveling with babies.
Happy dad describes Jimena’s first call home: ‘It’s an incredible joy.’
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