PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Catholic News Service
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
MILAN (CNS) — When the Archdiocese of Philadelphia hosts the United States’ first World Meeting of Families in 2015, it will need to be a significantly smaller affair than the enormous gatherings seen since its inception in 1994, said the city’s archbishop.
It is only with a reduced number of participants that “we could manage through special gifts and the like that people would be willing to give to support such a gathering,” Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia told Catholic News Service shortly after Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement.
The pope announced the host city of the next world meeting at the Seventh World Meeting of Families’ closing Mass to an estimated 1 million people gathered at Milan’s outdoor Bresso Park June 3.
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