Madison group blogging on World Youth Day pilgrimage

This year, Kat Wagner of the Catholic Herald, official newspaper of the Diocese of Madison, is traveling to World Youth Day to be with the Madison pilgrims as they experience this worldwide gathering of young Catholics.  The dates are August 8 to 24. The Diocese is teaming up with St. Paul University Catholic Center to sponsor this pilgrimage to Madrid, Spain.

As World Youth Day draws closer, more information is being released on the many events that will be happening as a part of the six-day event, as well as hosted by other organizations.

The “Love and Life Centre: A Home for English-speaking Pilgrims” today released its schedule of events to be held at the center during the days of WYD. The schedule includes a variety of programs and speakers designed to appeal to pilgrims of all ages and can be accessed at wydenglishsite.org

Highlights include newly appointed archbishop of Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Carl Anderson, Hollywood actors Matt Marsden and Clarence Gilyard, FOCUS president Curtis Martin, and such musical performers as Alexander Acha, Dana Scallon, Scythian, and LAngelus.
Follow all the action at madisoncatholicherald.wordpress.com

You will note that Scythian will be playing at World Youth Day!  Also I read a great article on the NCRegister about how this is the 75th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War(which is probably why Spain was chosen for this years site).  You really must check out the photo they posted with it.  It explains the last 75 years in Spain to a T.  

3 comments:

Virginia Zignego said...

So jealous! I loved Spain. Kat, what a wonderful experience for you.

Kat said...

I'm excited, and my husband is coming to keep me out of trouble, so it should be excellent. As I'm not the greatest fan of large crowds, we'll have to see how this goes...

Carolyn said...

That NCRegister article is great - I particularly loved the quotes from Stanley Payne - and he's (something of) a Badger! While not a native of WI, he was a professor of mine at UW-Madison.

He was quite old when I took a seminar on fascism and national socialism with him in fall 2005 and he retired shortly thereafter but man, even then he still knew his stuff and he was still traveling for seminars and writing.