Pope Benedict XVI’s agenda for
this summer’s World Youth Day in Madrid includes a rare lunch with young
Catholics and a session hearing their confessions.
The Vatican on Saturday released the pope’s agenda for the Aug.
18-21 visit, his third to Spain as pope and a focus of his efforts to
reawaken the faith in an increasingly indifferent and secular Europe.
But his focus is Catholic youth: he’ll meet with young university professors, young priests and nuns.
A lucky few will have lunch with him; others will confess to him and thousands more will participate in prayer vigils and a Way of the Cross procession before the main World Youth Day Mass on Aug. 21.