World Youth Day
16/6/08
With a little over a month to go until World Youth Day is celebrated in Sydney, the event is attracting more and more coverage in the media. Last Saturday the Sydney Morning Herald published a provocative article by Adele Horin looking at the event through the eyes of a an unbelieving mother in a household of religiously sceptical young people. In this response a Catholic mother with much experience of the mores of young people today, Kerry Gonzales, responds supporting Adele Horin’s call for the fostering of greater religious tolerance in the wider Australian community but herself also expressing a different kind of scepticism about what World Youth Day is going to achieve. Will it convince the broad masses of young people or is it likely to fan the flames of the sort of religious intolerance recently exhibited in Sydney against the proposal to build an Islamic secondary college in the outer suburbs of Sydney at Camden?
See: http://www.catholica.com.au/gc2/kg/004_kg_120608.php;
http://www.smh.com.au/news/adele-horin/faith-no-more-as-world-youth-day-fans-flames-of-disbelief/2008/06/06/1212259114360.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
Tags: Australia, Christianity, Religion