More than 30,000 people register to see Pope at RDS

More than 30,000 people have registered for the Pastoral Congress, one of the main elements of the Catholic Church’s World Meeting of Families (WMoF) being held in Dublin in August just before the visit of Pope Francis.

It is the highest number of advance bookings ever for the three-day event established by Pope John Paul II in 1994 and held every three years in a different city.

Those who registered and paid for at least one day of the three-day congress at the RDS from Wednesday, August 22, to Friday, August 25, will be entitled to tickets for the Papal Mass at the Phoenix Park the next Sunday.