“Heeding Pope Francis’ call to shake up the Church, hundreds of thousands of young Catholics marched across Rio on Saturday, singing, beating drums and chanting ‘this is the pope’s youth!’ They waved flags from around the world — Brazil, Australia, South Africa, the United States — and pitched tents on the crescent-shaped beach of Copacabana for an all-night vigil and final mass with the pope to cap World Youth Day festivities. Since his election in March, history’s first Latin American pope has sought to re-energize Catholics, using his Rio trip to urge young believers to spread the Gospel and ‘make a mess’ in their dioceses.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/27/young-catholics-flood-rios-streets-after-pope-francis-speech/
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