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A million young people are expected to attend the August 1-6 World Youth Day gathering with Pope Francis in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. There will be a total of 148 delegates from Malaysia. It’s only natural that such an event should be a great time of pilgrim celebration, of sharing languages, cultures, experiences, joys, hopes and woes with others from all over the world.
I don’t know whether the young pilgrims will join Francis in visiting the Marian Shrine at Fatima. If so, it would be a good idea to experience the gift of tears for suffering humanity rather than wasting time on the politically manipulated and now irrelevant messages and “secrets” Our Lady allegedly shared with the young visionaries so many years ago.
But should we only strive to respond as well as possible to this dominant demand of those young people who have remained practising Catholics? Wouldn’t it be better, or more demanding, to give reason and the historical relevance of the Church their due? Couldn’t the catecheses offered by the bishops in Lisbon be an opportunity to include this more reflective aspect ?
In these times of “retraditionalisation”, liturgically and otherwise, it would be important, for example, to reiterate that there was a Second Vatican Council, and to explain the theological renewal it meant for the Church and its insertion “in the world of this time”, without concealing the difficulties of its implementation and the contestations to which it was subjected.
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