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Cologne 2005
Look again BE LIKE HER
RADICAL STUFF
Young people in WA are especially being invited to answer Benedict’s call to say ‘Yes’ as Mary did by joining in a special prayer on the Mother of God’s birthday
Political ideologies suffocate human freedom, but the Saints have always shone through. The Pope called young people to follow the ‘shining path’ they trod.
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Proving World Youth Day is a phenomenon that has survived its founder, John Paul II, approximately 1.5 million pilgrims came to Cologne last week seeking just one thing - to encounter Jesus. All over the world young people are finding what their parents’ generation let slip through their fingers - that the Church offers Jesus Christ as the answer to every human question - and it really is true. REPORTS INSIDE