It was Judas who said “the money would be better spent on the poor.” The same thing is being said on some quarters about the money spent on staging World Youth Day at a time when there are famines, wars, natural disasters and debit crises. Is WYD money well spent?
“Today, as in every age, there is great reason for despair, and there are many whose lust for power leads them to fool others into believing they have the cure for it,” writes Tim Muldoon in the Washington Post
“In making a pilgrimage to WYD, then, we seek a deeper and a greater hope, one that does not fall prey to the silly trading of power from one generation to the next,” he continues. “We seek the faces of others who, like us, reach out beyond the limitations of human attempts to create utopias, toward a God whose message of hope is inscribed within our hearts, and whose offer of meaning even amidst suffering is the only satisfaction of our deepest desires.”
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Tim Muldoon is a Catholic theologian, author, speaker, and retreat leader specializing in the ways that Church traditions speak to contemporary life. He has written extensively on the themes of young adult spirituality, Ignatian spirituality, theology in postmodernity, sexuality and marriage, and adoption issues.