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View a slideshow of images from the Meitheal Summer Training of 2010 which involved 200 students from 20 schools across the diocese run over four weeks.

Registration for the K&L pilgrimage to the 2011 World Youth day in Madrid is underway.  Pilgrims (17-35yr olds) need to register interest before 17th Sept 2010.

This video recounts the origins of World Youth Day which goes back to international youth meetings in Rome in the 1980s and the leadership of Pope John Paul II. 

In the preparation for the visit of 10,000 youth with disabilities coming to Madrid for the 2011 World Youth Day, volunteers are receiving special training as helpers for the handicapped.

In this episode of Real Faith TV on ‘our place in the universe’, the special guest is Br Guy Consolmagno,who is a Jesuit astronomer and planetary scientist for the Vatican Observatory and author of the book, The Heavens Proclaim.

Real Faith TV is a show in the US that reaches out to teens looking for answers to many of the issues they face in today’s world, and help them to deal with those issues through a Catholic faith perspective.

Youth 2000 invites you to join them for their Summer Festival from 12-15 August 2010 in Clonmacnois, County Offaly.    Free transport from the diocese.

The diocese is offering free transport to the Knock Summer Festival 25th-27th June 2010. The bus will leave Friday afternoon and have pick-up points in Carlow, Naas and Clane.

Over 200 young people across the diocese, have been selected to undertake the Meitheal Youth Leadership Training programme over the coming months in preparation for the academic year 2010/2011.

As students, at all levels, prepare to take exams over the coming weeks, here are some prayers to help students cope with exam stress.