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Expecting half that number, Italian organisers stunned by massive Catholic youth turnout Seen as prelude to WYD, Benedict XVI proposes to over 500,000 youth a way of life that goes against the trend - not the success, power, arrogance or empty models promoted by the media, but the courageous model of Mary, solidarity and protection of creation LORETO, Italy (Zenit.org/The Record) - A trip by Pope Benedict XVI to Loreto on Italy’s eastern coast was meant to be a moderate-sized event. The Pope was to have a question and answer session with about 800 youth in the “Agora” gathering; have some private reflection in the Holy House of Loreto in the morning and celebrate a Mass in the evening for roughly 200,000 youth. What the Pope got, however, was a startling but no doubt refreshing reminder of the faith of the world’s youth: over half a million young people showed up to hear him speak. And he didn’t let them down. Benedict XVI invited the half a million young people to go against the current in a world seduced by violence, despotism and “success at all costs.” He also told them he was looking forward to seeing them at World Youth Day in Sydney next year. The Pope’s appeal resounded at the closing Mass today in Loreto, where the Holy Father arrived on Saturday for Continued - Page 12
Greeting: Some of the estimated half a million youth (some not so young) who turned out at Loreto wave to Pope Benedict XVI as he passes by. PHOTO: ALESSIA GIULIANI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES:
McGinty agrees to meet key Swedish policy architect ■ By Anthony Barich
Attorney General Jim McGinty has agreed to meet Europe’s leading adviser on combating pros-
titution and human trafficking. Gunilla Ekberg, Sweden’s former Special Adviser on prostitution and human trafficking who played a key role in the country’s 1999 anti-prostitution law, arrives
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NOT SO FAST, CHANNEL 10 A new series on Channel 10 is causing outrage. Californication seems like an open insult to Christians, Catholics most of all. It seems like there’s nothing left to insult.
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in Perth on September 16 and is set to address a public forum expected to be attended by MPs from both sides of Parliament at the University of Notre Dame on September 20.
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Ekberg arrives after telling The Record during an interview published on June 14 that she Continued - Page 16 Archbishop issues letter to MPs - Vista 2-3 Bunbury Bishop issues pastoral - Vista 1
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Letters from Mother Teresa to spiritual directors reveal an extraordinarily long period of decades where a modern saint could not sense His presence.
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