I try to listen daily to a global news podcast produced by the BBC. A couple of weeks ago I heard a story about the Pope sending text messages to youth in Sydney, Australia during the most recent World Youth Day. I was so intrigued by the idea of receiving a text signed "-BXVI" that I had to check it out. Check out the link for more:
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0803734.htm
I couldn't help be even more impressed with the Pope who came into the Vatican with such relatively little fanfare as people seemed hesitant about where his papacy would go. I would have never have expected for his first encyclical to be title, "God is love," but was even more surprised (and pleased) to see him trying to be responsive to the times, reaching out to Catholics where they are actually at, even if in small, slightly comical ways.
Now, just to figure out what I would want a text from BXVI to say...
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