Tag: World Youth Day

Young Catholics across Sydney are being encouraged to begin preparing for World Youth Day Seoul 2027, with the archdiocese launching an expression of interest campaign for the global gathering.

Organisers in Seoul, South Korea, announced five patron saints for World Youth Day 2027 that reflect the themes of truth, peace and love that are at the heart of the youth gathering.

St Mary’s Cathedral was brimming with joy and excitement as the World Youth Day (WYD) cross and icon returned to Sydney for the first time since the city hosted the event in 2008.

On 4 December, following the Australian Catholic Youth Festival in Melbourne, the World Youth Day Cross and Icon will be welcomed once again in Sydney at St Mary’s Cathedral. 

The official World Youth Day Cross and Icon will arrive in Melbourne as a highlight of the 2025 Australian Catholic Youth Festival.

The first World Youth Day to be hosted in a country where Christians are a minority will seek to instil young people with the courage to share the Gospel while fostering interreligious dialogue, organisers of the event said.

If the graces of the International Eucharistic Congress will be anything like what we saw with World Youth Day 2008, then the next generation of Catholics will be in for a treat, writes Monica Doumit.

A year ago today, the Portuguese capital Lisbon, was home to one and half million pilgrims as they gathered to celebrate the 38th World Youth Day, which was presided over by Pope Francis.

Credit: Rome Reports The Dicastery for the Laity, Family and Life and the John Paul II Foundation for Youth have organised a series of events...

To celebrate the first anniversary of Cardinal Pell’s death, a Mass was celebrated at the beautiful chapel in Domus Australia in Rome. This chapel was very dear to His Eminence and it was fitting to have this celebration in this special place. 

One Sydney parish was so determined to help their young people get to World Youth Day in Lisbon that it raised almost $20,000 to...

According to tradition, World Youth Day is being largely ignored by the secular press and is being marked with nonstop complaining by Catholic social...