News media skip World Youth Day (Where are all the social commentaries now? )

1 posted on 08/20/2011 1:10:07 PM PDT by NYer

To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; SumProVita; ...

From Catholic World Report

Here are some particularly great images from the World Youth Day events of the past few days, all courtesy of Catholic News Service:

(CNS photo/Andrea Comas, Reuters)

Nuns sing and cheer as Pope Benedict XVI visits the Basilica of St. Lawrence in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, Aug. 19.

(CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Robert Anthony Gualtieri, 17, Michelle Arabiana Cabalic, 20, and Ashley Roa Ignacio, 20, all from Colorado Springs, Colo., listen to a catechesis by Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York at a Madrid church during World Youth Day Aug. 17.

(CNS photo/Andrea Comas, Reuters)

A priest hears confession from a pilgrim in one of the 200 temporary structures set up at Madrid's Buen Retiro park on the first day of the World Youth Day Aug. 16.

(CNS photo/Susana Vera, Reuters)

A woman rebukes a pilgrim who cries, holding on to her cross, Aug. 17 during a demonstration against what protesters claim is the expensive cost of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Madrid.

(CNS photo/Susana Vera, Reuters)

Pope Benedict XVI puts on a hat given to him by a young man during a World Youth Day welcoming ceremony in Madrid Aug. 18.

(CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters)

Children dressed as Swiss Guards welcome Pope Benedict XVI after he arrived at Madrid's Barajas airport from Rome Aug. 18.

(CNS photo/Tony Gentile, Reuters)

Pope Benedict XVI addresses a gathering of young professors inside the Basilica of St. Lawrence in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain, Aug. 19.

(CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters)

Pope Benedict XVI greets children outside the apostolic nunciature in Madrid Aug. 19. The pontiff was in Spain for the celebration of World Youth Day.

(CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano via Reuters)

Pope Benedict XVI pretends to play a piano made out of cake after meeting young people for lunch in Madrid Aug.19.

And finally...I think anyone who has ever attended World Youth Day can sympathize with this one!

2 posted on 08/20/2011 1:11:48 PM PDT by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)

No Obama = No news reporting. Its all about Ramadan dontcha know.

3 posted on 08/20/2011 1:12:23 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)

I think reason why is in August majority Of US MEdia is on holiday in Hamptons they are mess up right now I see coverage on BBC world news, Al jazeera and France 24

4 posted on 08/20/2011 1:24:33 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile)

I think reason why is in August majority Of US MEdia is on holiday in Hamptons they are mess up right now I see coverage on BBC world news, Al jazeera and France 24

5 posted on 08/20/2011 1:24:40 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile)

Pictures from the WYD in Spain. Notice in one of the later pictures, the incredible high altar - Pope Benedict is way at the bottom, like where Diego would crouch - in El Escorial Palace.

6 posted on 08/20/2011 1:25:19 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy." R. Mitchell)

Spain’s tv and radio also have coverage. My boss keeps sending me video links from Spain that I don’t have time to watch.

7 posted on 08/20/2011 1:26:35 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy." R. Mitchell)

The “And finally ...” picture is showing a blank. May assume it shows the line for the facilities?

8 posted on 08/20/2011 1:29:20 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy." R. Mitchell)

It is so true about US media UK and other media they been cover it good surprise Al Jazeera giving straight forward reporting on World Youth day

9 posted on 08/20/2011 1:32:21 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile)

These are some very bizarrely-dressed people.
Either that or I’m just used to everyone around me wearing the same blue clothes.

10 posted on 08/20/2011 1:37:02 PM PDT by Anoreth (Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.)

These are some very bizarrely-dressed people.
Either that or I’m just used to everyone around me wearing the same blue clothes.

11 posted on 08/20/2011 1:37:12 PM PDT by Anoreth (Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.)

These are some very bizarrely-dressed people.
Either that or I’m just used to everyone around me wearing the same blue clothes.

12 posted on 08/20/2011 1:37:21 PM PDT by Anoreth (Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.)

No, it's this:

And finally...I think anyone who has ever attended World Youth Day can sympathize with this one!

Father Manuel de Santiago of Pontevedra, Spain, naps in a park in central in Madrid in the afternoon of Aug. 18 while attending World Youth Day celebrations. He wasn't alone in catching up on some rest: hundreds of youths reposed in the grass before the beginning of the Stations of the Cross nearby.

13 posted on 08/20/2011 1:39:18 PM PDT by SFConservative

The latter, I believe. However, some are in religious habits, some are in costumes, and some are in funny yellow t-shirts with red scribbling and various nationalistical doo-dads. Not many are dressed like ... me.

14 posted on 08/20/2011 1:43:28 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy." R. Mitchell)

To: SFConservative

15 posted on 08/20/2011 1:44:55 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy." R. Mitchell)

Al Jazeera probably can’t figure out what’s going on, at all.

16 posted on 08/20/2011 1:45:47 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("There is only one remedy for ignorance and thoughtlessness, and that is literacy." R. Mitchell)

The “And finally ...” picture is showing a blank. May assume it shows the line for the facilities?

I had to copy and paste the script to a text file in order to add the full address line to the jpg images. Forgot to post that one ... so here it is!

17 posted on 08/20/2011 1:50:10 PM PDT by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)

I think reason why is in August majority Of US MEdia is on holiday in Hamptons

Nonsense! If anything, they are on holiday in Hades.

18 posted on 08/20/2011 1:51:25 PM PDT by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)

Why would your pope don a cowboy hat sideways??? Would seem an insult to the fella that gave it to him...

19 posted on 08/20/2011 3:05:56 PM PDT by Iscool (I don't understand all that I know...)

Yellow is not a good color.

20 posted on 08/20/2011 3:32:28 PM PDT by Anoreth (Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time.)

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