THOUSANDS OF WORLD YOUTH DAY PARTICIPANTS STAY ON IN ROME

VATICAN CITY, AUG 22, 2000 (VIS) - Despite the fact that World Youth Day finished on August 20, 70,000 young people from all over the world, members of the Neocatechumenal Way, have prolonged their stay in Rome and yesterday passed through the Holy Door of the Vatican Basilica.

Yesterday afternoon in the Circus Maximus, Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Pope's vicar general for the diocese of Rome, presided at a Mass for the young men and women present in Rome. A vocational meeting was then held, in which Cardinal Christoph Schonborn O.P., archbishop of Vienna, Austria, took part along with 50 bishops from various countries and the founders of the Neocatechumenal movement: Kiko Arguello, Carmen Hernandez and Fr. Mario Pezzi.

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