"We are travellers…not yet in our native land" – St. Augustine
I really should just not read secular coverage of Catholic events, it’s just too annoying. Fortunately, Meg Hunter-Kilmer over at Held By His Pieced Hands has some sanity in her new article entitled 5 Shocking Things Pope Francis Believes:
Most of my American friends have now returned from World Youth Day, so I thought I would write a quick entry welcoming them back! Hi guys… 🙂
It’s entirely possible that some people reading this blog have never heard of World Youth Day. Well, it was started back in 1985 by Pope John Paul II and, every two or three years, is marked by a week-long international event. It is for this reason that last week the Pope and 1.5 million Catholics gathered together in Madrid:
If you’d like to read a personal account of the week by an English pilgrim, I’d invite you to check our Hannah’s write-up over at Transformed In Christ.