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Young Swiss Catholics invited the Pope to visit Bern to attend the first national youth event in the history of the Swiss Catholic Church. The gathering has as its theme Jesus’s command quoted in the Gospel of Saint Luke to “Get Up!”.
“For me this means young people, full of life, calling on an old man in poor health to encourage them and to urge them on," [Etienne] Barilier said. “Perhaps they are not wrong in this”.
But Barilier’s acceptance of the visit is not shared by all.
Enrico Riboni, an engineer and confirmed atheist, calls the slogan “a joke”.
“The history of the Catholic Church shows that it has never aimed to lift people up. It has always sought to impose itself on people, to make them kneel."