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Pope Francis thanked World Youth Day organizers and volunteers and urged them to be "the hope of the future."

Take risks and do not let life's obstacles get in the way of encountering the true joy and life that Jesus can give, Pope Francis told more than 1 million young people.

Catholic priests and nuns must renounce their personal interests and create a church that "goes into the world" with "living writers of the Gospel," Pope Francis said.

Humankind’s cruelty did not end with the Holocaust, but rages on in the suffering of those living through war, homelessness and persecution, Pope Francis said.

Pope Francis has a "stomach of iron" and considers the German Richard Wagner his favorite composer, said young Catholics who lunched privately with him July 30 during World Youth Day.

Pope Francis told young people they are not called to be couch potatoes, living boring lives, but should leave their mark in history and not let others determine their future.

The 13th annual Shiraz for a Cause to benefit the Bishop DeFalco Retreat Center is set for Saturday, Aug. 6 from 7:00pm to 10:30pm in the courtyard at the Retreat Center, 2100 North Spring.

The seventh annual Diocesan Faith Formation Conference for all parish leaders, catechists, Catholic school teachers, lectors, RCIA leaders, parents and all involved in parish ministry will take place Saturday, Aug. 6 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1200 South Washington.

Jesus did not stop talking about mercy even though he was nearly thrown from a cliff after his first public talk in a Nazareth synagogue, and the rest of his life can serve as an example for people of faith to follow, Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley told an energized World Youth Day audience.

The head of the U.S. military archdiocese July 25 urged pilgrims on the way to World Youth Day to have "an ideal beyond" themselves and to be people "for others."

The world, not religion, is waging a war in pieces, Pope Francis said.

The murder of a priest in northern France, taken hostage with a handful of other faithful during a weekday morning Mass July 26, is another act of "absurd violence" added to too many stories of senseless violence and death, said the Vatican spokesman.

With his visit to World Youth Day only a few days away, Pope Francis asked young pilgrims to accompany his visit to Krakow, Poland, with prayers.

The following is the seventh in a series of several bulletin inserts that will appear in parish bulletins and on the diocesan website during the Jubilee of Mercy, in English and Spanish, by Bishop Patrick J. Zurek.

Catholics Come Home, an organization dedicated to inviting those back to the Catholic Faith, has launched a new campaign meant to reach out to the millennial generation.

The numbers are staggering, yet impressive. • 15 years of Adoration, Community, Theology and Service; • 72 adult retreats completed; • 19 teen retreats completed; and, • More than 5,000 participants, so far.

It started with an idea by seminarian Shane Wieck. It’s a new program in the Diocese of Amarillo, but it’s a program that has been well received throughout the United States.

David Hernandez, formerly a teacher in the Dual Language Program at Humphrey’s Highland Elementary School in the Amarillo Independent School District, has been named the new principal at St. Joseph School.