Being at World Youth Day

It's the day before Pope Benedict XVI arrives at World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany, and I'm home in Steubenville, Ohio. But I've spent the past hour or two listening to Fr. Roderick podcasting from World Youth Day on the Catholic Insider. I've also been reading posts from World Youth Day by Tim Drake on his blog, Young and Catholic.

Through these two "new media" forms, I have relatively intimate connections with the events in Germany. In a way, I feel as if friends are taking me with them. I'm not confused - I know I'm still in Ohio - but there's a new dimension of communication going on.

It's very cool!