news Pope Francis draws 1.5 million young people at World Youth Day in Portugal

[Sergi91]

Pope Francis ended a five-day trip to Portugal on Sunday with a massive open-air Mass for an estimated 1.5 million people who camped out overnight on a vast field to attend the grand finale of the World Youth Day festival.

Many of the mainly young people in Tejo Park in the Portuguese capital Lisbon had camped out overnight to attend the open-air Mass on Sunday. 
 

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WYD is an event for young people organized by the Catholic Church that was initiated by Pope John Paul II in 1985 and it happens every three to four years in a different country. 

South Korea won the bid to host the 2027 World Youth Day. 

[Lana Banana]

WYD Lisbon indeed

[greeneyedsoul]

Outsold the Eras Tour. 

 

 

[byzantium]

Ok, but Pope Francis is not a very good performer.  

[feelslikeadream]

Oh dear.

[bliaz]

Legend 

[CBC]

I had fun

[JayG]

A damn MESS, humans really are dumb as ****... all that pedo worshipping, CHILE

Edited August 6, 2023 by JayG

[Specter]

I'm sure the Pope celebrates World Youth Day with a certain...enthusiasm

 

 

[uusagii]

My older brother went to one of these like two decades ago, it's literally such a scam

[Käärijä]

32 minutes ago, uusagii said:

My older brother went to one of these like two decades ago, it's literally such a scam

Elaborate pls. I'm curious to know more about this 

[wowsignal14]

"young people" that's a wet dream for a priest 

[uusagii]

57 minutes ago, Käärijä said:

Elaborate pls. I'm curious to know more about this 

Well, the whole point of this is to be in the presence of the Pope, which is such a blatant marketing tactic aimed for insanely traditional Roman Catholic families. My parents had to pay for his "placement" for the event, which was an inordinate amount of money, but none of that pays for the actual trip to the hosting country; they still had to pay for his plane ticket (it took place in Sydney that year), arrange/pay for his home stay family, and other costs like pocket money.

 

It was a **** ton of money yet they still sent him because they were insane Catholics and thought it'd be an honour. Like this event literally takes advantage of families like mine for a quick lil cash grab.
 

Edited August 6, 2023 by uusagii
grammar, etc.

[Odette Violet]

I see Koria, Japan, China's flags. East Asians are truly winning huh 

[KillingYourCareer]

4 minutes ago, Odette Violet said:

I see Koria, Japan, China's flags. East Asians are truly winning huh 

Is that what you call winning?

[Odette Violet]

Just now, KillingYourCareer said:

Is that what you call winning?

It's a jk hun. Try to chill out for once 

[KillingYourCareer]

Just now, Odette Violet said:

It's a jk hun. Try to chill out for once 

This might be the first time in history I'd support the use of /j to make a joke clear

[stjosephprey4us]

2 hours ago, Phantom said:

I'm sure the Pope celebrates World Youth Day with a certain...enthusiasm

 

 

What is this… 

[Sergi91]

10 minutes ago, uusagii said:

Well, the whole point of this is to be in the presence of the Pope, which is such a blatant marketing tactic aimed for insanely traditional Roman Catholic families
My parents had to pay for his "placement" for the event, which was an insane amount of money, but none of that money pays for the actual trip to the hosting country. They still had to pay for his plane ticket (it took place in Sydney that year), arrange/pay for his home stay family, and other costs like pocket money.

 

It was a **** ton of money yet they still sent him because they were insane Catholics and thought it'd be an honour. Like this event literally takes advantage of families like mine for a quick lil cash grab.
 

This was in 2008. I remember being invited to the 2011 in Madrid but couldn’t go. 
Did you brother at least enjoyed it? 
 

4 minutes ago, KillingYourCareer said:

Is that what you call winning?

They are. You hate to see it. 

[uusagii]

Just now, Sergi91 said:

This was in 2008. I remember being invited to the 2011 in Madrid but couldn’t go. 
Did you brother at least enjoyed it? 
 

They are. You hate to see it. 

I think he enjoyed visiting Australia. Also, his home stay family were wonderful. They sent him postcards for like years afterwards.

He didn't have much to say about the actual, like, Catholic part of the trip, but he went with a bunch of other kids from our church, so I'm sure they all had fun

 

In retrospect, I'm 100% sure my parents didn't send me because I was so obviously a British cigarette

 

[Happylittlepunk]

Catholicism is starting to rise among youth in Europe and Asia for past couple of years. 

[Sergi91]

The future of the church 

 

 

[MardinBeksloy]

our favs could never 

[flower moon]

4 hours ago, wowsignal14 said:

"young people" that's a wet dream for a priest 

 

6 hours ago, JayG said:

A damn MESS, humans really are dumb as ****... all that pedo worshipping, CHILE

The downvotes As if you said anything wrong

[wowsignal14]

6 hours ago, wowsignal14 said:

"young people" that's a wet dream for a priest 

lmao not ppl down voting me, the vatican is evil they protect actual pedophiles. ffs.