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(Vatican Radio) It is no accident that the 31st World Youth Day, currently underway in Krakow, Poland, falls within the Jubilee Year of Mercy.Fr Eugene Sylva, an official for the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelization, told Vatican Radio it was important for Pope Francis that the international youth gathering fall within the context of this Holy Year.Listen to Lydia O’Kane’s full interview with Fr. Eugene Sylva: “What the Holy Father tries to do with every group of people he meets, and now especially the young, is to help each of them have a personal encounter with Jesus Christ,” and “allow themselves to feel forgiven,” he told Vatican Radio’s Lydia O’Kane.“Let’s face it: Most 16 year-old young people think of themselves as a mess,” said Fr. Sylva, who worked many years ministering to the youth. “One of the great problems our young people face is they no longer can be impelled by beauty...
(Vatican Radio) Volunteers from around the world are in Krakow for World Youth Day. Without their help, there is no way the youth event would be able to be carried out.But why do they give up so much of their time – some work on the event for over a year – to travel to a country on the other side of the world? For most, because it is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.Within our team we are really, really international,” said Viktoria Samp, a volunteer in World Youth Day’s Organizing Committee’s International Affairs Office.Listen to the interview by Lydia O’Kane with Viktoria Samp: “There are a lot of people from all over the world, from Asia, from all countries of Europe, from South America, and also from North America, so we have nearly the whole world here,” she continued.Paula Mora Diaz, a volunteer in the same office from Colombia, said she is impressed by the devotion of the people in Poland.“The experience has ...
(Vatican Radio) Among the pilgrims attending the World Youth Day events in Krakow were two American friends who went on a tour of the site of the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau and afterwards spoke to our correspondent Lydia O’Kane about the emotions their visit had aroused in them. Lydia spoke first to Hattie Shore and afterwards to her friend Irene Wilson, both of them pilgrims who had come to Poland from their homes in the U.S. Listen to the interviews with Hattie Shore and Irene Wilson: Asked about her impressions of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Hattie described what she called the “eerie” and “unsettling peacefulness” of the site, saying she walked around it “with a pit” in her stomach. Although not keen beforehand to visit the site of the infamous death camp where nearly a million people died at the hands of the Nazis, Hattie said going to Auschwitz had helped “to bring history alive&rd...
(Vatican Radio) One of the many bishops from around the world going to World Youth Day is the Bishop of Derry, Donal McKeown.Bishop McKeown serves at the Director of the Youth Committee for the Irish Bishops' Conference.Listen to the interview by Lydia O’Kane with Bishop Donal McKeown: He said World Youth Day is a chance for the Church to offer hope to young people.“I think that one of the many great strengths of the Gospel Message: That we can tell people that life does have a meaning; that their lives are beautiful; that they are called to do something wonderful with their lives; that their lives are precious; that there really is a value in doing things, and loving, and knowing the Gospel, and being energized by Jesus,” Bishop McKeown told Vatican Radio.“I certainly find the Gospel message of hope – of the dignity of the human person, and of the enormous capacity we have through God’s grace to do beautiful things with our lives – in...
Krakow, Poland, Jul 27, 2016 / 03:49 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Located just southeast of Krakow, the Wieliczka salt mine is famous for many things – most notably its underground chapels, made entirely out of rock salt.In fact, the chapels are so stunning that they have earned the mine a nickname: the ‘underground salt cathedral.’Officially opened in the 13th century, the mine is one of the oldest salt mines still in operation and is composed of numerous chambers chiseled out of rock salt, saline lakes, statues and chapels sculpted in salt.Until now, the main visitor’s route through the mine, called the “Tourist Route,” has been walked by roughly 40 million tourists from around the world, according to the mine’s official website.In a show of just how deeply the faith is rooted in the Polish people, the mine is also filled with several chapels carved completely out of rock salt, in order to provide miners with a way to practice their faith while un...
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