Vatican City, Apr 14, 2005 / 22:00 pm
The renowned Spanish journalist Paloma Gomez Borrero, the only female journalist who accompanied the Pope during all 104 of his apostolic trips around the world, said Thursday that young people from all of the continents should attend World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, in August.
In an interview with CNA, Gomez Borrero, author of the best-seller in Spanish, “El Papa Amigo” (“The Pope Friend”), noted the magnetism of Pope John Paul II with young people; she said the World Youth Day that most impacted her was that of Denver in 1993.
“What happened in Denver was completely unexpected,” she said.
“That hundreds of thousands of young people in a country with no tradition of pilgrimages, in a city with a Catholic minority, would mobilize themselves to meet with the Pope, to listen to him and follow him took the world by surprise,” she added.