Pope plays cupid at youth gala in Poland
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PRAYER was not the only thing on the minds of hundreds of thousands of young Catholics at the World Youth Day extravaganza in Poland this week: some were also looking for love.
Headlining the event in a village near Krakow, Pope Francis, 79, was an enthusiastic matchmaker, offering his top tips for happy relationships.
“World Youth Day can be a bit of a marriage agency,” Sophie Jubin, a 20-year-old Swiss, said as she spent a hot night under the stars.
Some 400,000 young Catholics traveled from 187 countries around the world for the event and at least a million more people, many of them Poles, attended a lively papal mass yesterday.
“You want to find someone with the same values as you,” said Jubin, lamenting that “in our group — it’s funny — there are 250 girls and 50 boys, so lots of girls are disappointed!”
“Finding love isn’t the main topic of World Youth Day, it’s just a little extra, but I’m very happy Aleksandra is here,” Ignacio, a smiling 18-year-old Spaniard, said of his new, 22-year-old Polish friend.
“We’re nearly a couple!” he chuckled as Aleksandra chimed in, saying it was “easier to meet someone at WYD because the atmosphere makes you more open.”
“We don’t notice other people’s faults as much because we’re focused on the positive. And we open up to other cultures, too!”
Pope Francis cracked jokes and offered advice for a happy love life earlier in the week to youngsters gathered nightly beneath his window, cranking up the party spirit at an event dubbed “the Catholic Woodstock.”
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