a couple of photos to capture the confusion in town - and that yellow Vatican flag dudeSaw a group of French-speaking students in town - including some bloke with a giant yellow flag - reminded me of Don Quixote lol - almost using it like a lance jokingly - up and down the platform at Wynyard as a marshalling point for the trains arriving -
I asked his friend "what's with the flag ?"
"eet eez zee Vatican flag" I was told
"but no, we are no Swiss guards?"
- had a good laugh together .
great atmosphere in town - thousands of different accents.
Missing WYD pilgrims suspected of visa scam
Posted Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:00am AEST
Updated 3 hours 58 minutes ago
Australian and New Zealand Immigration officials and the Catholic Church in New Zealand are looking for a group of 32 Indian pilgrims, who have gone missing.
The Indians are part of a larger group of 4,000 bound for World Youth Day in Sydney this afternoon.
They made a stopover in Auckland but the 32 have disappeared from the families who were billeting them there.
It is suspected they are involved in a visa scam, with some reportedly paying more than $11,000 to an Indian agent.... etc
And the Catholic Church is bemused about the antipathy towards it!And if anyone gets bored while in Sydney and would like something to read then try this...
http://www.oneinfour.ie/about/fernsreport/
Mike
chops-with-mustard said:If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
I was away last week and missed this story - disgusting - looks like its as rotten as it ever was - makes me sick that these people (i.e. Pell et al) cover this stuff up and still hold positions of power and claim the moral high ground - doesn't do anything for my view of the catholic church as an institution.
Having said all that, I'd still rather have this particular group rallying in mid city, than to have the gay mardigras mob doing the same sort of thing. At least most of these young Catholics seem like decent enough people. As Julia has pointed out, they're a big improvement on the junkies and drunks and weirdos and violent scum who are all too common in today's society.
Only for the non-believers. An athiest is a hypocrite to take a religous holiday, are they not?The Pope told thousands in Sydney today that Jesus is Alive, does this mean that our Easter holidays are cancelled?
Only for the non-believers. An athiest is a hypocrite to take a religous holiday, are they not?
The beauty of working for yourself.So what should atheists do.....turn up at their usual workplace, only to find the doors or gates locked so they can't get in?
Only for the non-believers. An athiest is a hypocrite to take a religous holiday, are they not?
Sorry to break your reverie Bishop.
"The cardinal and I were otherwise occupied last night enjoying the youth festival so we didn't see the Lateline story. All I've seen is the reports in the newspapers today."
It seems the co-ordinator of World Youth Day, Bishop Anthony Fisher, has a daily reading habit that extends beyond the News Ltd press.
Only the Fairfax papers carried the yarn. The official organ of WYD08, The Australian, ignored it. "Parents fly in to confront Pell", was the headline in The Age ; the small matter of a father who claims now-Cardinal George Pell frustrated his claim for compensation after the r-pes of his primary school daughters by priest Kevin O'Donnell.
But really, best ignored, says Bishop Fisher.
"Happily, I think most of Australia was enjoying [and] delighting in the beauty and goodness of these young people and the hope for us doing these sorts of things better in the future, as we saw last night, rather than dwelling crankily, as a few people are doing, on old wounds."
Cranky. Daughters r-ped by a priest? Get over it. They just don't get it, do they?
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