Intrepid young activists push condoms at World Youth Day
(RNS) Sending a small band of young people to talk about condoms at
orld Youth Day, the triennial Catholic jamboree that opens in Madrid on
uesday (Aug. 16), sounds like penance, if not a kind of martyrdom.
The six-day event is expected to draw close to 1 million young
ilgrims, as well as thousands of priests, nuns and brothers, some 800
ishops and cardinals, and Pope Benedict XVI himself, who will lead a
uge outdoor Mass on Sunday.
Those are daunting numbers compared with 30 young activists who are
aking their "Condoms4Life" campaign to the streets of the Spanish
apital this week. Authorities in Madrid weeks ago barred bus ads and
illboards for the effort.
