Record 'profits' for WYD 2023, but transparency may be biggest legacy

World Youth Day left a 35 million euro surplus - and organizers have clear plans for where the money is going

The World Youth Day 2023 Foundation, which organized the event that drew over 400 thousand pilgrims to Portugal last summer, presented its official accounts on Friday, 31 May, the feast of the Visitation — a nod to the motto of the gathering: “Mary arose and went with haste”.

Father Alexandre Palma, incoming president of the WYD 2023 Foundation. Image Cr…