Nearly four decades after the last big World Youth Day in Buenos Aires, over a million people gathered in the same city on Nov. 10. My first thought was how many of them would have been children back then, if they were born at all. The pope's message, as the headline puts it, was to stand firm, become saints and go and proclaim. Easy to say at an outdoor Mass with that crowd, harder on a wet Tuesday at work when nobody is cheering. Still, I'd rather hear that than another speech about being nice.
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Emily Sutherland
@emilys92
Brisbane. Grew up Anglican, married Catholic, still arguing about hymns over Sunday roast.