{"id":4752,"date":"2011-08-26T13:12:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T20:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=4752"},"modified":"2015-03-19T14:49:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T21:49:06","slug":"world-youth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2011\/08\/26\/world-youth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"World Youth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s entirely possible that some people reading this blog have never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/worldyouthday.com\/\">World Youth Day<\/a>. Well, it was started back in 1985 by Pope John Paul II and, every two or three years,\u00a0is 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madrid11.com\/en\">Madrid<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/world_youth_day_2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4756\" src=\"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/world_youth_day_2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/world_youth_day_2011.jpg 500w, https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/world_youth_day_2011-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to read a personal account of the week by an English pilgrim, I&#8217;d invite you to check our Hannah&#8217;s write-up over at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/transformedinchrist.wordpress.com\/2011\/08\/25\/world-youth-day-madrid-2011\/\">Transformed In Christ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The secular media coverage of the event was rather pathetic, so I thought I&#8217;d share a video posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/badcatholicblog.blogspot.com\/2011\/08\/we-are-catholic-my-world-youth-day.html\">Bad Catholic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6qxyT1LnArQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8230;and while we&#8217;re on the subject of the press coverage of World Youth Day, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wordonfire.org\/\">Fr. Barron<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6No7GkjQ4uE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230; \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[385,2969,67,384],"class_list":["post-4752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-bad-catholic","tag-featured","tag-fr-robert-barron","tag-world-youth-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4752"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56365,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4752\/revisions\/56365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}