World Youth Day is a privileged experience - a great blessing - but it does involve some shared suffering: a lot of walking under hot sun or drenching rain; waiting - sometimes long waits, for example, when our bus broke down and we spent several hours at a service station whose rest room didn't work. That wait did give the opportunity to celebrate Mass on the service station grounds.

​Shared experiences, especially shared suffering if accepted patiently can bring people together. The cross unites us.  Bishop Robert Barron spoke to young people about the cross...