The media coverage leading up to nearly every World Youth Day follows a pretty similar trajectory. It certainly has for each of the WYD events I’ve covered (Toronto, Cologne, and Sydney), and it’s happening again in the lead-up to Madrid, which begins in just seven days.
That trajectory is that the secular media trots out all of their negative stories – the clergy sexual abuse crisis, the Church’s so-called traditional teachings and how they are at odds with the culture-at-large, how the youth are disaffected and disconnected with the Church, and the costs for hosting WYD.
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