This dark moment, he writes, with the help of young people “can truly be an opportunity for a reform of epoch-making significance, opening us to a new Pentecost and inaugurating a new stage of purification and change capable of renewing the Church’s youth.

We look at the Synod’s final document and talk about what still needs to be done to have young people lead in the Catholic Church.

"As long as there are new generations able to say, 'Here I am' to God, the world will have a future."

This year’s W.Y.D takes place less than three months after the conclusion of the Synod for Young People that was held in the Vatican last October.

“Young people aren’t here for the church; they are the church—the most beautiful and dynamic part of the church.”

Cardinal Blase Cupich spoke about the synod’s method of “synodality,” the sexual and other forms of abuse of minors, the role of women in the church and migration.