Volume 19, Issue 10

In just one month’s time, ‘Pilgrim No. 1’, Pope Benedict XVI, will arrive in Sydney for World Youth Day. Calling the Holy Father ‘Pilgrim No. 1’ is a reminder to us that all the other thousands of pilgrims coming to Australia for this event are not coming to meet the Pope. He is coming with them as a fellow pilgrim, keeping an‘appointment’ with them, as he himself has said. They are coming here on pilgrimage to meet Jesus, and they are coming to meet him here among us in Australia.