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As America welcomes Benedict XVI to Washington, D.C., Rick Sincere provides a first-hand account of another Pope’s visit, and a Mass on the National Mall.

When Pope Benedict XVI visits Ground Zero in New York, he will pray for the redemption and conversion of Islamic terrorists:
The Pope will pray for the redemption of Islamic terrorists when he visits the site of the September 11 attacks in New York next week.
The pontiff will call for terrorists to convert to Christianity, saying: [...]

To mark the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI in Washington next week, Washington’s Metro put together a YouTube video reminding people to take Metro to the April 17th Mass at Nationals Stadium.
Well, someone in the Archdiocese of Washington wasn’t amused:
It seemed like a great marketing campaign: a Pope Benedict XVI bobblehead riding Metro. The Church [...]

Pope Benedict XVI baptizes a Muslim convert to Catholicism:
Italy’s most prominent Muslim commentator, a journalist with iconoclastic views such as support for Israel, converted to Roman Catholicism Saturday when the pope baptized him at an Easter service.
As a choir sang, Pope Benedict XVI poured holy water over Magdi Allam’s head and said a brief prayer [...]

I’ve just got to say it.
Sorry Your Holiness, but this is total bullshit:
Lust, gluttony, greed and the rest of the seven deadly sins gathered in the 6th century will have to get used to a modern companion. A Vatican official has articulated seven new categories of sin “due to the phenomenon of globalization.”
“While sin used [...]

It seems that relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church may be warming:
BERLIN — Chances of a meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and the Russian Patriarch Alexy II at a neutral location are improving, a top official in the Russian Orthodox Church was quoted as telling a German magazine this week.
In an interview [...]

It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the middle of a Presidential campaign:
BALTIMORE, Maryland (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI will make his first visit to the United States as pontiff next year, and plans to visit the White House, ground zero and speak at the United Nations, the Vatican’s ambassador said [...]

Is there an official Catholic position on government-run health care ?
According to these activists in Michigan, the answer is yes:
Some Catholics in Metro Detroit are organizing a media and Internet blitz against three local members of Congress, saying the representatives’ stand against a Democratic proposal to finance the State Children’s Health Insurance Program — known [...]

Let me start this out by saying that while I was raised, baptized, and confirmed in the Catholic Church, I am far from the most religious Catholic out there. I have alot of respect, even reverence, for the traditions of the Church, but, as this latest encyclical from Pope Benedict XVI seems to confirm, the [...]