Pope Benedict XVI defends World Youth Day, head on: Benedict laid out the traditional critique of World Youth Day – one that he knows well a few of his own lieutenants are, at times, inclined to share. “What, therefore, is the nature of what happens at World Youth Day?” the […]
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We’ve arrived. After parting with family in Toronto, we barely made it past airport security. That is, as Heather picked up her bags to walk away after being cleared and she dropped her boarding pass and stepped on it. She was ready to keep walking too, if I hadn’t spotted […]
I’m posting this quickly from the Vancouver airport. I’ve thrown together a page at http://blaise.ca/australia as a home base for updates from my trip to Australia over the next month. There’s nothing really there yet, but there will be soon. I’ll be blogging intermittently and updating Twitter throughout the trip […]
I’m in the process of booking a hotel for World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney. I was having a bit of difficulty confirming which neighbourhood (if any) will be hosting the majority of the Youth Festival events. In Cologne (2005), activities were spread out between three cities, but in Toronto […]