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Vatican stamp inspired by monument celebrating colonial era stirs controversy

Crux Now|May 18, 2023|3 Min Read

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World Youth Day helps inspire young people to serve others, pope says

Carol Glatz|May 2, 2023|3 Min Read

Pope Francis arrives to bless candles at the Chapel of the Apparitions at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal May 12. The pope was making a two-day visit to Fatima to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Marian apparitions and to canonize two of the young seers. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) See POPE-FATIMA-VIGIL May 12, 2017.

Vatican lays the groundwork for World Youth Day in Portugal

Elise Ann Allen|Oct 19, 2022|4 Min Read

A Portuguese flag is seen near Pope Francis as he greets the crowd before celebrating Mass for World Youth Day pilgrims in Panama City in this Jan. 27, 2019, file photo. In his message for World Youth Day, the pope asked young people to be like Mary and "arise and go in haste" to share Jesus with others. World Youth Day will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, in August 2023, after being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters)

Young must hasten to share God's love, pope says in WYD message

Cindy Wooden|Sep 12, 2022|4 Min Read

Pope Francis is pictured during an interview with Maria João Avillez of CNN Portugal at the Vatican Aug. 11, 2022. During the lengthy interview, the pope called sexual abuse "diabolical" and a "monstrosity" and said there is "zero tolerance" for those in the church who are guilty of abuse. (CNS screenshot/CNN Portugal)

Zero tolerance for priests guilty of abuse, pope says in interview

Carol Glatz|Sep 6, 2022|3 Min Read

A Portuguese flag is seen near Pope Francis as he greets the crowd before celebrating Mass for World Youth Day pilgrims at St. John Paul II Field in Panama City Jan. 27, 2019. World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal, will be during the first week of August 2023, the Vatican announced. (CNS photo/Alessandro Bianchi, Reuters)

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USCCB official sees enthusiasm building for WYD 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal

Tom Tracy|Aug 23, 2022|7 Min Read

Pope John Paul II, standing near the Eiffel Tower, greets young people from around the world during the 1997 World Youth Day in Paris. (CNS photo/Paolo Cocco, Reuters)

Faith

St. John Paul II and Blessed Carlo Acutis named among patrons of World Youth Day 2023

Catholic News Agency|May 18, 2022|2 Min Read

Argentine Cardinal Eduardo Pironio, former head of the Vatican congregation for religious and council for the laity, is pictured in a photo from 1998, the year he died. (CNS photo/Michael Edrington)

Faith

Pope advances causes of four religious, cardinal who organized first WYDs

Carol Glatz|Feb 18, 2022|2 Min Read

Young people from Portugal are pictured with the World Youth Day cross and their country's national flag following the cross' handover from their Panamanian peers at the end of Pope Francis' Mass Nov. 22, 2020. Pope Francis chose several verses that reflect on the call to "arise" and "stand up" as the themes for World Youth Day 2020-2022 in dioceses around the world, leading up to the international gathering in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2023. (CNS photo/Vincenzo Pinto, Reuters pool)

Be prophets of 'hope-filled future,' pope tells young people

Junno Arocho Esteves|Sep 27, 2021|3 Min Read

Singers record the theme song for World Youth Day 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal. (Lisboa2023.org via CNA)

Theme song unveiled for next World Youth Day in Lisbon

Catholic News Agency|Jan 27, 2021|4 Min Read

Young people hold the World Youth Day cross in 2019. (Vatican Media via CNA)

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World Youth Day cross given to Portuguese youth ahead of international gathering

Hannah Brockhaus|Nov 22, 2020|3 Min Read

Youths from Poland present the World Youth Day cross to young representatives from Panama at the conclusion of Palm Sunday Mass celebrated by Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican in this April 9, 2017, file photo. Young people from Panama will pass the World Youth Day cross to their Portuguese peers Nov. 22 at the end of Pope Francis' Mass for the feast of Christ the King. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

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WYD cross to be given to Portuguese young people at pope's Mass Nov. 22

Catholic News Service|Nov 17, 2020|1 Min Read

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