Pope Liu, the fourteenth, surprises the Catholic Youth Festival with an unexpected Popemobile greeting

The Vatican City – The Vatican City (AP) – Pope Liu XIV Tens of thousands of Catholic youth surprised on Tuesday and appeared unexpectedly at a welcome ceremony in the Holy Year, which raised children and received a rock star star in the first event of big youth in Pontificate.

Liu appeared in Saint Peter’s Square in Boubohbil at the end of an evening bloc that launched the jubilee for young people, a week -long celebration for young Catholics. The 120,000 young pilgrims who worshiped the square erupted in chants of shock, as Liu was flying around the square and up and down in the street leading to it.

For 20 minutes, Liu made it, waved, and it seems that she had an enthusiasm from his bumper on the boubel, while it was in the Sea of the Chant, and they swept the flag from all over the world, as the sunset threw a golden glow over the peas.

In a brief greeting of slaughter from the altar, the young pilgrims told that they are beacons of light, hope and peace that the world needs today.

He said in a mixture of Spanish, English and Italian: “The world needs hope messages. You are this message, and you must give hope to everyone.” “We want peace in the world. We want peace in the world!”

Liu, the first American door, was not expected to meet with young pilgrims as a group until the weekend, when he was heading on Saturday, a pause on Sunday, highlighting the Jubilee Week.

The Mass on Tuesday was celebrated by the Italian Archbishop who organized the Holy Year, the head of bishops, Renault Vesicilla, but it was he who urged the children not to leave the scene in the end, because the Pope was “a surprise to us.”

The crowd responded with the classic abstinence of the Catholic youth gatherings: “This is the youth of the Pope.”

This week, she walked in the center of Rome with active, lyrical fans and dances of teenage Catholic scouts, church and Catholic schools, whose numbers are expected to enlarge to 500,000 by weekends.

All of this was the feeling of the Youth Youth Day, which is the Woodstock Catholic Festival, which was every three years that was opened by Saint John Paul II and has been kept by all the Pope since then.

Tuesday started with groups of Catholic influencers – the priests, nuns and ordinary believers who use their presence on social media to preach and teach faith – passes through the holy door in Bazilica, which is traffic rituals on 32 million people participating in the holy Vatican celebrations of 2025.

Francis met some influencers earlier on Tuesday and thanked them for using their digital platforms to spread faith. But he warned them against neglecting human relations in their endeavor to clicks and followers, and warned them not to fall prey in fake news and “trivial” online meetings.

“It is not just a matter of generating content, but who created a meeting between hearts,” Liu said in a speech that showed ease of transformation between languages. “Be agents to communicate, able to break the logic of division and polarization, individual and selfishness.”

“It is up to us – for each of you – to ensure that this culture is still human,” he said. “Our mission – your mission – is to take care of the culture of Christian humanity, and do so together,” as he called the only networks that really concern: friendship, love and “the network of God.”

Pablo Litcheri, who founded the Mass Times Catholic application, which provides sites and times for Catholic rituals around the world, and recorded two million downloads, said he felt theft through the message of unit Liu and the enthusiasm of young Catholics like him who descended in Rome.

After the Mass on Tuesday, he said: “I have moved in particular to meet many of his colleagues from the Catholic influencers personally and praying with others who share the same passion for spreading the joy of God’s love.”

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