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World Youth Day 2011: prayer vigil goes on despite rain storm

World Youth Day 2011 Celebration in Spain With Pope Benedict XVI 300×231 World Youth Day 2011. World Youth Day 2011 Party in Spain With Pope Benedict XVI ope Benedict XVI received a reception worth a rock star as he Initiated by Pope John Paul II in 1985, World Youth Day events for the celebration of [...]

Thunderstorm forces Pope to cut speech

Getty Images A priest listens to a confession at one of the 200 temporary confessionals set up at the Buen Retiro Park as part of the World Youth Day 2011 on August 17, 2011, in Madrid, Spain. Initiated by Pope John Paul II in 1985, World Youth Day Lightning illuminates the sky as a storm [...]

Pope says priests must live saintly lives

"We have to be saints so as not to create a contradiction between the sign that we are and the reality that we wish to signify," he said in a sermon as part of activities of the Church's World Youth Day. He said priests must understand their "decision Protesters demonstrate against the public cost of [...]