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People are doing the inevitable Monday morning quarterbacking after the Pope’s visit — but nearly everyone is giving him raves. This piece nicely captures a lot of different voices and perceptions, from USA Today: Benedict XVI celebrated Mass before a loud, jubilant crowd at Yankee Stadium on Sunday, capping a U.S. visit marked by the…

I thought it might be interesting to just post a few pictures from today’s mass at Yankee Stadium, to give you a “Deacon’s Bench” glimpse of the day. My wife and I left Forest Hills, in Queens, about 9 a.m. and — this is unreal — we were at the stadium and walking through the…

One of the better shots I took at Yankee Stadium, if I do say so myself: the Holy Father waving goodbye after the final blessing and preparing to start recessing into the dugout. For the curious: it’s a Pentax K100 digital SLR with 18-200 Tamron zoom. ISO 400. Shutter 1/750. Aperture: f 9.5.

John Allen over at NCR confirms what I suspected after I spied Rudy Giuliani in the communion line at St. Patrick’s Cathedral: At least three times during Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States, a prominent pro-choice Catholic politician has received communion during a papal Mass. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Massachusetts Senator John…
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