“You do know that July 14 is Bastille Day,” said His Eminence John Patrick Cardinal Foley. I had not made that connection but it now will be a date etched in my memory for it was the day in 2011 that I shared eclairs and cream puffs with one of my church heroes…

“Today Christ calls you to be the salt and light of the world…” Blessed John Paul II

“The postmodern world is going through a difficult and deep crisis. Relativism creates a dangerous vacuum of common values and meaning,” Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, told Vatican Radio on Aug. 13.

The group will be among 250 bishop-catechists from all over the world, drawn from different countries and language groups.

Test your knowledge of the Catholic faith and you may be the next owner of a Kodak Play Sport Video Camera! Answers due July 31.

And the winner is… Watch some of the best of Catholic youth media now available on the official World Youth Day site!

“I personally believe … people with Down Syndrome have an extra dose of love. They have an extra ability to reach people’s hearts because they don’t have the self consciousness of ‘what are people thinking of me? Am I being judged?’ –They just love.” Leticia Velasquez

Submit your responses in the comment area below and we’ll announce the winner in early June.

Pope Benedict XVI Asks Young People to Help End Poverty, Respect All Life
–As Reported by Zenit News Service

The international line-up of movies depicts how people react to God when facing life’s trials. (View this and other articles at http://www.madrid11.com/.)