It has been customary for the serving pope to be a part of World Youth Day for a number of years.
The last Roman Catholic Pope to visit Australia was Pope John Paul II who visited Sydney in January 1995, in total he made three visits to Australia. Pope Benedict the XVI is due to visit Australia in 2008 for the Catholic World Youth Day celebrations.
Pope Paul VI was the first pope to ever visit Australia. He visited Sydney in 1970.
The CD is called 'Receive the Power'. It was only available in hard copy from the WYD2008 site, but can still be downloaded from Itunes Australia. Wonderful song.
FOR WORLD YOUTH DAY he stayed in the Parliment house. ( he didn't really stay in the Parliament house)
Pope John Paul II's last visit in the Philippines was last January 11-21, 1995 in celebration of the World Youth Day.
Pope Benedict XVI.
The Pope went to Australia for World Youth Day in 2008.
We have set our hope in the living God
From the Wikipedia article on World Youth Day 2008:The event attracted 250,000 foreign visiting pilgrims to Sydney, with an estimated 400,000 pilgrims attending Holy Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI on 20 July.[
Pope John Paul II
His Holiness, Pope John Paul II, of happy memory, organized World Youth Day in order to connect to the young people of the world, and to evangelize them.
Pope Francis, as of September 1, 2013, has only visited Brazil in July 2013 for World Youth Day.