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Special Issue – World Youth Day
Experience the journey of World Youth Day by clicking the individual stories below, and check out the photos on this page to see what life was like as a pilgrim in Poland. ‘All of us returned home...
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 made a big impression on Krakow.
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.