World Youth Day, a Pilgrimage of People with the USCCB’s

Pope St. John Paul II created World Youth Day because of his own profound experiences as a youth at large gatherings while on pilgrimage with his peers. Hoping to bring that joy to the masses, World Youth Day was born, and now with the 17th World Youth Day set to be held in Seoul, South Korea in August of 2027, Katie sits down with Paul Jarzembowski to learn how the unique pilgrim’s experience at a World Youth Day is unlike anything else in the Church or world today.

Paul Jarzembowski is the secretariat of laity, marriage, family life and youth for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).