World Youth Day
PBXVI gets ‘New Media’ Treatment
Wednesday, March 30th, 2011In anticipation of World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid, a special edition comic book chronicling the life and pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI is being released by California-based Manga Hero comic producer Jonathan Lin. Written by John Paul the Great University student Gabrielle Gniewek, the Japanese-style comic “Habemus Papam!” will be circulated among more than 300,000 [...]
World Youth Day Is for Everybody
Thursday, July 24th, 2008As I’ve become a father and now a grandfather, I catch myself thinking of World Youth Day (WYD) as an event–an amazing, terrific event, mind you–for another generation, but not for me. As I’ve been reading the various papal addresses and homilies from the event, however, I’ve come to see with the Holy Father and St. Augustine [...]