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International News See other International News Articles Title: A new Catholic counter-revolution is under way in Europe
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Financial Times
URL Source: https://www.ft.com/content/e7236ecc-9366-444c-8213-1515656adf5c
Published: Aug 13, 2023
Author: Jonathan Derbyshire
Post Date: 2023-08-13 02:45:42 by Charles_Byrd
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Last week, hundreds of thousands of young Catholics from around the world converged on the Portuguese capital Lisbon for World Youth Day, an international religious gathering that first took place in Rome in 1986. In a sermon delivered in the city on August 3, Pope Francis reminded those present that in the Church there is room for everyone. More than 42,000 of the 354,000 pilgrims were from France (the fourth- largest national contingent after Spaniards, Italians and Portuguese). And a poll of young French Catholics planning to travel to Lisbon published in May, in the religious newspaper La Croix, suggests that they might not have been especially receptive to Franciss expansive ecclesiastical vision. Click for Full Text! Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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