Some Hints On What Pope's Benedict's USA trip Will Look Like(LSU TIGER STADIUM NOT ON LIST YET!!!)

I am still hoping the Pope will come say Mass where real college football is played in this country :). However I expect a emergency visit to Notre Dame and exorcism of the playing field might happen before that.

Anyway Whispers in the Loggia has a good post on what has leaked out on the Pope's upcoming visit. Go to Coming to America: B16's April Road Show for the details. Let me say if there is a Mass on the National Mall(which there might be) I want to go. Catholics in Louisiana if you want to split the gas and driving and I all for it. I would love the Pope to do address a joint session of Congress and give a hard hitting presentation. Who knows. Maybe that is in the works.

LEt me point out the Whispers post is very interesting because he hits on the Boston trip and some very depressing news as to priest morale. But let me excerpt this also:

Lastly, as the plans stand, the visit shatters the long-standing protocol for papal trips to the US.From Paul VI's 1965 14-hour jaunt to New York and the UN straight through 'til the last visit (John Paul II's 1999 stopover in St Louis), the Popes and their advance teams made the conscious effort to keep the pontiff out of the States in the midst of a presidential election year.This time, with the primaries winding down and the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees likely emerging in the very midst of the papal presence, the usual scenario is conspicuously not the case.