Tuesday, March 21, 2006
WORLD YOUTH DAY
is big business:
THE Catholic Church's World Youth Day is celebrated every year on Palm Sunday, this year April 9. At a mass in St Peter's Square, Rome, presided over by Pope Benedict XVI, German youth will hand over the WYD cross to Australian youth. Cologne hosted the last week-long festival in 2005; it is coming to Sydney in 2008 when 250,000 visitors will inject about $110 million into the economy.
I wonder if Australia will manage to keep it holy or if this will be yet another spectacle of embarrassment?
