WORLD YOUTH DAY

Hundreds of thousands of people turned out on Sydney's streets to catch a glimpse of Pope Benedict XVI. (Getty Images)

SPOTLIGHT

• WYD asylum seekers 'to rise'

  Tuesday, 12th August,2008

  The leader of Australia's catholics, Cardinal George Pell, has told SBS it's "not entirely unexpected" that World Youth Day pilgrims could seek asylum in the country once their three-month visa expires. read more...

• Fischer to be Vatican ambassador

  Monday, 21st July,2008

  Former Deputy Prime Minister Tim Fischer will become Australia's first resident ambassador to the Vatican. read more...

• Groups angry over shun

  Monday, 21st July,2008

  Support groups of church sex abuse victims voiced their disappointment over being excluded from meeting with the Pope.
  AUDIO: Anthony Foster speaks to SBS Online
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• Pope meets sex abuse victims

  Monday, 21st July,2008

  Pope Benedict XVI this morning met with a four people who have been abused by Catholic clergy in Australia, in a private mass at St Mary's. read more...

• Sport and religion find common ground

  Sunday, 20th July,2008

  With a scattering of national flags and large groups of people singing and chanting, WYD looks and sounds like a sporting event. read more...

• Hundreds of thousands gather for pope's youth finale

  Sunday, 20th July,2008

  Pope Benedict XVI led hundreds of thousands of pilgrims in an open-air mass in Sydney on Sunday, ending a week of World Youth Day festivities marked by a historic papal apology for priestly sex abuse. read more...

• Sacred sexiness: WYD sex education

  Sunday, 20th July,2008

  The fluorescent lighting inside the small class room killed any prospect of intimate ambience. Young faces reflected an innocence long gone in the contemporary world of sexual promiscuity. read more...

• Pope warns of 'spiritual desert' in modern world

  Sunday, 20th July,2008

  Pope Bendict XVI said Sunday that World Youth Day in Australia had been an unforgettable experience but warned that a "spiritual desert" was spreading in the modern world. read more...

• Killing Jesus 'awesome': Catholic actor

  Sunday, 20th July,2008

  It's a rare thing indeed to share the stage with Jesus – but it's even rarer to be the man who kills him. David Ramli reports on the Stations of the Cross re-enactment. read more...

• Pope's final mass of WYD underway

  Sunday, 20th July,2008

  The final event of Sydney's World Youth Day is underway with Pope Benedict XVI taking the stage before an estimated crowd of up to half a million people to celebrate mass. read more...

• WYD Catechesis ignores some ugly truths

  Sunday, 20th July,2008

  After attending a WYD Catechesis, David Ramli finds out he is almost certainly going to hell...and so are three quarters of the Australian population. read more...

• Pope flies over pilgrims at Randwick

  Sunday, 20th July,2008

  Pope Benedict XVI has flown in a helicopter over the Southern Cross precinct in Sydney's east, seeing for himself the hundreds of thousands gathered for this morning's papal mass. read more...

• Past Papal apologies

  Saturday, 19th July,2008

  Benedict XVI and his predecessor John Paul II in have admitted errors by the church.
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• Pope sorry over sex abuse, victims want more

  Saturday, 19th July,2008

  Pope Benedict XVI issued a landmark apology to thousands of Australians sexually abused as minors by clergymen, but victims said they wanted more than words. read more...

• Colourful protesters gather to "annoy" WYD pilgrims

  Saturday, 19th July,2008

  A devil, a drag queen are opposing Pope Benedict XVI's stand against condoms, homosexuality and abortion.
  IN PICTURES: No-to -Pope March
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