well, i’m back in San Jose after a long, long plane ride full of pilgrims returning from World Youth Day in Köln. I’m exhausted, so I won’t write much about the trip here, but while we were in Berlin, CNN stopped by the parish we were staying with and interviewed some of my teens who were working on a service project at the elementary school. You can find the article here.

The relevant section is near the bottom starting with:

But his approach does not strike a chord with all of those attending World Youth Day, which was founded by John Paul. Some are decidedly more liberal on social issues, like birth control.

There’s a video link on the right which contains small quotes of some of the teens and with one of the Berlin young adults affiliated with the parish. You can see me briefly in the background with a long roller painting a white wall white (don’t ask, I don’t know either). It’s interesting how a 30 minute Q & A session with my teens turned into a few second sound byte…

Gilroy represent! :)

EDIT: looks like the video has been taken down. oh well! it was cool, trust me :)