The same thing happened on Wednesday to tickets for the Festival of Families and the Mass with Pope Francis on Sept. 27. And Francis, quoting a fourth-century bishop, has called the unfettered pursuit of money “the dung of the devil”.
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Yes. Besides the 10,000 tickets released Tuesday, thousands of other tickets are being given out to parishes with large immigrant communities in an effort to assure a diverse audience.
The World Meeting of Families (WMF) is a tri-annual Catholic event of prayer, teaching and celebration that the late Pope John Paul II created to strengthen bonds between families and witness to the importance of marriage. Some of those, too, were quickly put up for sale online.
The online auctioneer is eradicating the listings as a result of they violate its ticket coverage, eBay Senior Manager Ryan Moore informed PhillyVoice.
It was success, but only partially, as she has a family of five.
“I won 2 tickets to see the Pope in NYC”, said one Craiglist scalper, offering the pair for $1000.
“Someone is going to have to stay home”, she said in an email.
“People are hearing the word “tickets” and they are panicking”. He says only licensed ticketing agencies protect buyers. People have already begun planning their trips. On eBay, they started at $100.
“There are fewer tickets to go around for the dioceses up here, but 200 is still a nice chunk of tickets that will allow us to get a good cross-section of our diocese to see the pope”, DeTurris Poust said.
Announcements made last week revealed that tickets would be required for access to certain aspects of the papal visit.
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Papal events will also be broadcast on 40 huge screens throughout the city for crowds to watch all his appearances during his two-day visit to Philadelphia, including those that are not public.
