What do you get when you mix thousands of young people from all over Asia and Pope Francis? A sort of Catholic Woodstock.
With the 77-year-old pontiff presiding over the closing Mass for Asian Youth Day, the soundtrack for Sunday’s two-hour service at Haemi Fortress in western Korea was filled from beginning to end with the kind of drum fills, slap bass and synthesizer runs associated with an actual rock concert — or at the very least, an evangelical Protestant megachurch. There was even an electric guitar solo as Pope Francis led the congregants in Communion.
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