Tuesday, August 16, 2005
WORLD YOUTH DAY - A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
Throughout Catholic blogdom you can find positive reports on WYD. Marian Horvat provides the opposing view in a book report on John Vennari and Cornelia R. Ferreira's book WORLD YOUTH DAY: FROM CATHOLICISM TO COUNTER CHURCH.
Never having attended a WYD event, I can only comment on pictures I've seen. It has often been called Catholic Woodstock, and that does seem to be a fair analysis. Given the sexual appetites of the young, and given the permissive atmosphere easily noted in pictures, I find it to be what amounts to a near occasion of sin. Maybe the young people are up to the challenge. One would like to think they are, but sexual attraction is powerful, and there are few restraints provided, at least according to the pictures. The criticisms spelled out in the book review appear valid to me. I would have serious reservations about sending a child of mine to WYD.
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