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The pope is very green–as in eco-minded–but his zucchetto, or skullcap, has to be white. That’s one lesson the Washington metro authority learned, the hard way, when it had to yank a YouTube promo video encouraging people to take the Metro to Nationals Stadium to see the papal mass next week. The video featured a…

With the price tag on the Washington end of the papal trip topping $3 million, I guess everyone has to pitch in…Well, this gem is actually by way of Thomas Peters, aka the American Papist, and a friend who sent him the snap after choir practice at the National Shrine in DC. (He’ll be singing…

Yes, he do. The Vatican has released both a statement and a video message to the United States ahead of Benedict’s trip next week–the latter has been posted on YouTube. It’s not exactly great theater. One can see that English is not Benedict’s best language (though I can’t say my name in German) and that…

Following on a previous post about a U.S.-based petition to convince Pope Benedict to ban smoking in the Vatican (yeah, right), Vatican Radio did a bit of snooping around the Eternal City and discovered that in the nineteenth century, Pope Pius IX built a papal tobacco factory to make cigars and such. Poor Pius IX…
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