Pope to visit Rio slum during July World Youth Day

May 7, 2013 @ 4:02 am


Pope Francis, aboard his popemobile, leaves St. Peter's Square at the Vatican after celebrating a mass for Confraternities, Sunday, May 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) | Zoom
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VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis will visit one of Rio de Janeiro's favelas, or slums, during his weeklong visit to Brazil for World Youth Day, his first foreign trip as pontiff.

The Vatican on Tuesday released Francis' itinerary for the July 22-29 trip to the world's largest Roman Catholic country. It includes a meeting with prisoners and a visit to a Rio hospital as well as events linked to the Catholic Church's youth festival.

The 76-year-old Francis will remain mostly in Rio but will make a daylong side trip to Aparacida to pray at the shrine to the Virgin Mary.

He will also visit the Varginha favela, north of Rio, and deliver a speech.

As archbishop of Buenos Aires, the former Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio often worked and preached in the capital's slums.


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  • Tyrone DeVille wrote...
    A New Pope!
    March 13, 2013 10:19 am
    Now the Feast, Solid gold trays serving up fresh, succulent alter boys for their consumption.
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  • Moondoggie wrote...
    Cool, leftover comments from last week!
    March 13, 2013 10:42 am
    .
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  • Moondoggie wrote...
    Luke Burbank and company
    March 13, 2013 10:45 am
    are wondering if the new Pope will get with the modern world and get rid of those out of date restrictions on people killing their offspring.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Congratulations fellow Catholics!
    March 13, 2013 10:46 am
    We are no longer popeless. I guess it's true what they say, pope spring's eternal.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Right country, but I'd have guessed
    March 13, 2013 11:31 am
    Leonardo Sandri. ..... None the less, we have the first Pope from Latin America.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Yep!
    March 13, 2013 12:21 pm
    I don't care how much gets said about Catholics. I will always be proud to be one.
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  • po_guy wrote...
    "gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood"
    March 13, 2013 1:07 pm
    Now that is a whole mouthful of abomination, huh? God help us when that kind of filth gets disseminated.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    What?
    March 13, 2013 2:47 pm
    What are you talking about?
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  • Oly80 wrote...
    see his actual last name though...?
    March 13, 2013 1:58 pm
    dude's straight up Italian. both parents are from there.

    they just "ended up" there somehow...hmmm...

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Italians in Argentine are like Irish in America.
    March 13, 2013 2:39 pm
    It's called 19th century immigration. And Argentina 150 years ago was much friendlier to Catholics than the USA.
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  • Wils20 wrote...
    Big deal
    March 13, 2013 11:01 am
    It's going to be another pedifile.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    At least spell check your idiot thoughts
    March 13, 2013 11:07 am
    please...
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  • 0623 wrote...
    spell check
    March 13, 2013 1:18 pm
    Are you sure he didn't mean "pedifile"? Perhaps Francis loves to ride bicycles. It's already been said that he rides the bus.
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  • HLC wrote...
    I wonder if it's Obozo.
    March 13, 2013 11:07 am
    He was just voted the most powerful person in sports. Thats almost as silly as the Nobel so becoming a pope is in his wheelhouse. Ala won't like that.
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  • Oly80 wrote...
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    March 13, 2013 2:00 pm
    zzzzzzzzzzwehateobamawe'refoxnewssheepzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

    we get it.

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  • Tyrone DeVille wrote...
    Hold Forth The Golden Phalus!
    March 13, 2013 11:20 am
    Robes, phalic hats, and stained lacy aprons!
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  • bmaddy wrote...
    Fantasy Land
    March 13, 2013 12:14 pm
    Where are all the little boys at?
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    LOL, you are so witty!
    March 13, 2013 12:27 pm
    Is there anything funnier than pedophilia? LOL. Idiota.
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  • bmaddy wrote...
    Hmmmm
    March 13, 2013 12:41 pm
    Truth hurts!
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Your attempts at humor hurt.
    March 13, 2013 1:05 pm
    Better luck next time.
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  • JMGilday wrote...
    Comments section is reserved
    March 13, 2013 12:37 pm
    For haters, anti-Catholics and the mentally impaired.

    All others who wish to give this man at least a month in his position before condemning him, please post elsewhere

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  • Hayduke wrote...
    Sorry, JMGilday, but you know it's just going to be SSDD
    March 13, 2013 12:50 pm
    Now, if the new guy actually REALLY cleans house, pays victims claims without lawyering up and blaming the victim, AND gets rid of it's known pedophile priests without shuffling them off to another unsuspecting parish, that would be something worth applauding.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    OK, Hayduke - at least YOU might be willing to give him a chance.
    March 13, 2013 1:16 pm
    That's something the blind haters will never do. ....... And in reality it's not just the abuses that make the haters hate. Those who hate Catholics usually will do so anyway, reasoned excuse or not.

    But, guess what. Pope Francis WAS elected to clean house. He's not necessarily a Cardinal O'Malley, but...........

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  • Oly80 wrote...
    actually, hayduke, agreed.
    March 13, 2013 2:03 pm
    i hope this guy does clean house.

    and maybe update things a bit.

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