Not that a run of 2 means anything (or Rio is in Argentina like I mistakenly assumed [It is just down the road](https://maps.google.com/maps?q=rio+de+janeiro+to+buenos+aires&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&ei=eUhBUZu9HqiiyAHoxoDoDQ&ved=0CAsQ_AUoAg)) and given there were hundreds of years of Italian popes to skew this statistic, but it seems like Pope Francis and Pope Benedict XVI being elected months prior to World Youth Days nearby their countries of origin is not a complete coincidence. Maybe it is, but just to dispel any possible conspiracies, has there ever been a precedent of electing a Pope to draw attention to an event upon the Pope's "homecoming"?

A [recent question](https://christianity.stackexchange.com/q/14939/3941) mentions [World Youth Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Youth_Day) . Wikipedia says that it's an event for young people organized by the Catholic Church. That isn't very helpful, since there are a lot of different types of Christian youth events. How is World Youth Day different from other events? Why do people go? What can people expect if they go? Who counts as a young person? What's the goal?