Father Wallisch keeps pilgrims’ eyes on the prize
If the brief layover in the hectic Newark, New Jersey, airport taught the pilgrims anything, it was that they needed to get creative in order to celebrate their faith on the road.
‘If it’s anything but utter chaos, we’re good’
We’d been warned that this was going to be a pilgrimage, not a vacation.
Pilgrims bring a bit of Kansas to Krakow
Though roughly 0.05 percent of the 200,000 Catholics of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas were able to attend World Youth Day in Poland, the 108 pilgrims that were able to make the trip…
Archbishop encourages discernment of religious life
Recalling his own story of discernment, Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann encouraged the pilgrims of World Youth Day to prayerfully consider their own vocations while walking in the footsteps of the great saints of Poland.
‘You find a new patience here’
As any veteran World Youth Day pilgrim will tell you, traveling across the globe with millions of other people is an lesson in patience.
Seminarian came prepared
As an Eagle Scout, former member of the Kansas Army National Guard, and fourth-year college seminarian for the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, Ben Rogers knows a thing or two about being prepared.
Wadowice ‘offers a taste’ of what formed JPII
The small town of Wadowice, about an hour outside of Krakow, brims with the history of its most famous resident: St. John Paul II. During their second day in Poland, pilgrims from the archdiocese were…
Medical condition almost keeps pilgrim home
Jessica Luna, a parishioner of All Saints Church in Kansas City, Kansas, and an incoming freshman at Benedictine College in Atchison, almost missed out on coming to World Youth Day.
Pilgrims carry the spirit of pilgrim who died before WYD
Daniel Warner, a 16-year-old parishioner of Mother Teresa of Calcutta in Topeka, was so excited to go to World Youth Day in Krakow.
‘Pope of Mercy’ greeted with cheers, tears
When I asked the pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas what they were most excited to see in Poland, one response was almost universal: Pope Francis.