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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  • Papoon wrote...
    poverty
    March 13, 2013 1:16 pm
    You know he isn't going to live in poverty as his namesake did. He will live a luxurious life. He will say mass surrounded by millions of dollars of golden trinkets.
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  • JMGilday wrote...
    Papoon
    March 13, 2013 1:35 pm
    If you'd bothered to learn anything about the man before spitting your bile, you'd know that, when he took over as cardinal, he chose to forsake the palace, limo and servants of his predecessor to have more money to aid the poor - his chosen people. Respond to THAT, you scumbag...
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  • Papoon wrote...
    nonsense
    March 13, 2013 1:58 pm
    He is the pope now and he will say mass surrounded by gold, that is a fact. Gee, my opinion is bile? You must be a real sensitive loser. Calling me names? I feel sorry for you for being unable to deal with someone who has a different opinion than you.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Jorge (now Francis) is a man of the people forsaking personal comforts and conveniences.
    March 13, 2013 2:51 pm
    And surroundings mean nothing if they are nothing but props. It's not like Francis is going to personally use the gold. And you can't eat gold. ... But I wouldn't put it past this Pope that it another human being needed the help, some of that gold to another use.

    Learning more of him, he reminds me of a Father Andrew I knew once. Given a car by his parish, he soon gave the car away to a poor parishioner who needed transportation to a new job to feed his family.

    We can never know the future, but let us keep hope that a good man will remain so and be a good Pope.

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  • William Lawn wrote...
    So Mr. ron, a Jesuit named Francis?
    March 13, 2013 3:01 pm
    Unusual, don't you agree?

    At first glance he doesn't look to the manager/reformer that the Church probably needs, but he sounds like a good man.

    Pious, as the Church tends to term it.

    But probably not the guy that will deal with the Church's issues. Especially the sexual ones.

    Hope I am wrong. They do a lot of good and they've done a lot of bad.

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    An attempt at humor, Lawn ?
    March 13, 2013 3:38 pm
    Don't quit your day job.

    But all the folks in the Society of Jesus are not named Jesus - no matter how popular the name is given in Latin America. .. And perhaps the Pope chose Francis as a nodding respect to the Franciscans. .... In any event, he sounds like a Franciscan at heart. ... Not that most readers here know what either of us is talking about.

    But I do disagree with you on the sexual issues. While Francis is traditional on abortion and gay marriage. I believe he has stood forthright with Cardinal O'Malley to rid the Church of abusive priests (and others). As Pope, just give him a chance to do right.

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  • William Lawn wrote...
    Mr. ron, I haven't had a "day job" since May of 2001
    March 13, 2013 5:23 pm
    Not even a night one.

    Ron, are you looking at Rick Santorum right now on CNN? My heavens what a tool. A jab at President Obama, while discussing the new Pope.

    Good luck Mr. ron. Someday the real sexual issues will have to be dealt with by the Church.

    Men and women have sex.

    The Church needs to recognize that.

    Even men who are priests.

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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Mr. Lawn. Two things I try to avoid are Rick Santorum and CNN.
    March 13, 2013 7:52 pm
    But, We should count ourselves as lucky that this new Pope will clean up unpriestly abuses. ... Otherwise, I expect that the condemnation (but practical acceptance) of birth control will continue - at least until there is a revelation that birth control precludes the need for abortion, though he may soon accept it.

    Abortion, on the other hand, is likely never to be accepted, either by this Pope, the Church or most of its adherents. So long as life is defined as life, don't expect it.

    And on all other matters, don't expect the Church to change to fit the ever changing morality of society. ... The church has a right to its beliefs, as do you, or anyone else. If those beliefs become incompatible, well that's what freedom of association is all about. No one forces you to be Catholic - or Baptist - or atheist, for that matter.

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  • Hayduke wrote...
    My willingness to give him a chance is quickly fading
    March 13, 2013 2:26 pm
    From a speech he gave in 2007: "“We aren’t in agreement with the death penalty,” he said during that speech, “but in Argentina we have the death penalty. A child conceived by the rape of a mentally ill or retarded woman can be condemned to death.”

    In other words, he's just another Republican who wants to use the force of governments worldwide to compel rape victims to bear their attackers offspring.

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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    No, no, he is the head of the church. He leads on what he
    March 13, 2013 2:53 pm
    believes God wants. I don't mind the head of my church telling me what he thinks God expects me. He holds no power over my body. I do however mind politicians doing it because their laws I have to follow whether I agree with them or not.
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  • William Lawn wrote...
    Gay, can't agree on this one
    March 13, 2013 3:15 pm
    Although you think "He holds no power over my body" and in your case he doesn't. In many cultures he holds more power than any politician.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    You got a point.
    March 13, 2013 4:52 pm
    Truth is the church won't change all that much until we see a younger pope. But I still think there's a differene. Many more Catholics use birth control than not in spite the church's opposition.
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Haters suck...
    March 13, 2013 2:45 pm
    Catholics are the largest charitable organization on the planet, feeding, clothing and healing more people than any other group ANYWHERE. Food for the Poor, Catholic Relief Services, St. Jude's and America's Second Harvest total $5.6 BILLION, which is greater than #1 on the list for America. Not to mention Father Flannagan's homes, Catholic Medical Mission Board, Covenant House, thousands of charities from Missionaries to the Poor, Amigo's for Christ, soup kitches, homeless shelters & individual parishes. The Catholic Church has a nonprofit hospital system of 637 hospitals which account for hospital treatment of 1 out of every 5 people in the US. But sure why not, lets just indict the whole faith on the 1.5% of morally corrupt sickos and the athholes who covered it up.
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  • DonVigo wrote...
    The downside to the 80/20 rule.
    March 13, 2013 3:26 pm
    Twenty percent will always ruin it for the other eighty. Personally, I'm not a fan of the tennants of Catholosim, but only to the extent I don't follow them myself. For every bad news story I hear, I know a handful of folks under that sect that personify all the good things to come.

    Sadly, this IS MYNW.com, home to the most rampant and blatant population of trolls and sadsacks with nothing but hateful things to say on pretty much the entire internet.

    To those of you who follow this man, I hope he leads you into a better direcion. Seems to be a worthy man for the position. Mozeltov.

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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    Todah!
    March 13, 2013 4:56 pm
    :)
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    DonVigo
    March 14, 2013 5:48 am
    What's wrong? You don't like the Catholic teaching of God because they have not changed in the direction the Evil in this world wants them to?
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  • CH wrote...
    got my new pope on a rope
    March 13, 2013 3:59 pm
    now I need to get xxxcop over here! Every time I drop it, she loves to pick It up.
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  • It's me! Ha ha! wrote...
    He holds no power over my body.
    March 14, 2013 5:37 am
    gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood, you will have no problem when Pope Francis continues the Catholic idea that Homosexuality is wrong and a sin?
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  • gaymarriedchristianfromhollywood wrote...
    I take major issue with it.
    March 14, 2013 7:59 am
    I take issue with many of the things the Catholic church teaches. But the Church too can change. It was John Paul II that included slavery in a list of things that were intrinsically evil. And the church used to be for the death penalty and now oppose it. If I were gay I don't think I would be Catholic, but I don't think the church can stop a rising tide. Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged that the need to prevent diseases like AIDS could outweigh the church's long opposition to the use of condoms just two years ago. The hope spring's eternal.
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  • anotherfencewalker wrote...
    Funny news bits..
    March 14, 2013 7:39 am
    Less than two weeks ago the international news headlines were loaded with the story of the North Koreans getting ready to push the button on a nuke pointed at the south. Could happen at any moment we were were led to believe. But wait!! Here comes the new pope headlines. The coverage of this "event" was insane...
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