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World Youth Day USA Stateside Pilgrimage Leaders Guide
The document, World Youth Day USA Stateside Pilgrimage Leaders Guide was developed as a resource by the Secretariat of
Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
The Secretariat wishes to acknowledge the following individuals who contributed to and provided editorial assistance this and
complementary World Youth Day resources:
Armando Cervantes
Very Rev. Frank S. Donio, S.A.C.
Becky Eldredge
Robert Feduccia
Michelle Fischer
Kathy Goller
Lisa Gomes
Michael Hayes
David Heimann
Michal Horace
Beth Knobbe
Jonathan Lewis
Laura Lopez
Charlotte McCorquodale
Amy S. McEntee
Ela Milewska
Mark Moitoza
Marilyn Santos
Rosemary Sullivan
Doug Tooke
Darius Villalobos
The Secretariat is also grateful for the collaboration on and review of these resources by the Secretariats of Catholic Education;
Child and Youth Protection; Clergy, Consecrated Life, and Vocations; Communications; Cultural Diversity in the Church; Divine
Worship; Doctrine; Evangelization and Catechesis; and Justice, Peace, and Human Development.
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2001© 2001 Liberia Editice Vaticana (LEV), Vatican City; Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est © 2005 LEV; Pope Benedict
XVI, “Meeting with Volunteers of the Twenty-Sixth World Youth Day,” August 21, 2011 © 2011, LEV; Pope Francis, “Degree
of the Apostolic Penitentiary according to which Special Indulgences are grated to the faithful on the occasion of the 28th World
Youth Day,” June 24, 2013 © 2013 LEV; Pope Francis, “Meeting with young people from Argentina,” July 25, 2013 © 2013,
LEV; Pope Francis, “Homily for the Closing Mass on the Occasion of the