The Pope chose the Republic of Ireland as the location for the tri-annual event World Meeting of Families between 21st-26th August.
It’s a gathering for families which aims to celebrate, pray and reflect upon the importance of marriage and the family as the cornerstone of life, society and the Church.
The team running the event say they have had an unprecedented amount of interest. At 5am on Monday morning, they released 500,000 tickets for the closing mass in Phoenix Park in Dublin and by 5pm the same day 285,000 were gone.
Tickets for Pope Francis’ visit to Knock Shrine, a Roman Catholic pilgrimage site, were fully booked in less than five hours.
4,000 people on facebook though have said they are ‘interested’ in an event called ‘Say no to the Pope’, with 1,100 people clicking ‘going’.
The group have said they are peacefully protesting the Pope’s visit and are registering for free tickets but will not turn up.
One user posted: “Keep up the good work everyone! This isn’t about depriving people of faith their right to worship.
“This is a peaceful protest against a truly corrupt organisation which has caused incalculable harm to a great many people and which continues to do so; which has permitted child abuse and which obstructs and perverts the course of justice on a massive scale in order to cover it up.”
The user also cites misogyny, homophobia and hypocrisy as reasons…
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