Yankee Stadium

The Yankee Stadium will attract a different sort of crowd soon: the Pope and a Pope-listening audience.
Per the NY Times,
'The pope will straddle second base in Yankee Stadium, but stand over center field at Nationals Park in Washington. There are 100,000 ponchos on hand in the Bronx in case of rain, while three Polish nuns have dusted off a gold and silver garment, hand-woven more than a century ago, for the pontiff to wear at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in the capital.'
Read feature here.

The Pope said it, folks

Ok, as I was sipping my Passion Tea Lemonade this afternoon thinking about ways to finish a writing project on which I have embarked, I came across some news online re: Pope Benedict XVI, or as he is known in Southern Germany, Joseph Alois Ratzinger.

Interesting timing, I thought. Last night I was speaking to my friend Benjamin about this 'monopoly on truth' business and when I read the following bit online I thought, 'how apropos!'

So, here is the blog-worthy snippet of today:

LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI has reasserted the universal primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document that says Orthodox churches are defective and that other Christian denominations are not true churches.

The document, released Tuesday, restates key sections of a 2000 document that set off a firestorm of criticism among Protestant and other Christian denominations. It said they were not true churches but merely ecclesial communities and therefore did not have the "means of salvation."


via real time with Bill Mahr