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John Allen reports and has his last Correspondent’s Notebook up Allen, some of you might remember, is a former high school teacher (who left high school teaching about the same time I did…and now he’s in Rome and I’m in….never mind.), and I particularly appreciated his appreciative analogy of Benedict’s way of speaking with the…

Some of my favorites. Click on photo for full caption: Tonsures, ancient and new: >

Well, here are the links to the Pope’s addresses of the past day or so: At the Vigil The homily The Angelus The homily was an profound meditation on transformation, beginning with the transformation of death into life, bread and wine into Body and Blood: This first fundamental transformation of violence into love, of death…

..as I am unfortunately am, take a look at the Vatican’s live feed from Marienfeld. It’s all wide swooping angles – how did they do that? Is there a blimp or some sort of robotized camera on wires, like they have for some football game broadcasts now?

Brother Roger to have a Catholic funeral (Article’s in French, but you can get the gist…)

Asia News has various WYD stories, mostly from the perspective of those from, naturally, Asia. It also runs a story about a gathering in Mosul: Dear friends, yesterday evening we had a big celebration in Mosul: A spiritual pilgrimage  to Cologne- Germany. This was a meeting to be united spiritually with the  400 thousands young…

Some highlights from what I’ve seen: 12 young people lunch with the Pope. They were given vegetarian omelets. He was given trout. He sent the trout back and insisted on having what the young people were eating. Jamie from Ad Limina continues with his engaging accounts of adventures in Cologne: trying to find the tombs…

(As always, click on the photos for captions and credits) Go to the Webcam here – #2 gives you a nice shot to see how the place is filling up.

John Allen’s report and Correspondent’s Notebook. From the latter: A group from Bakersfield, Calif., is staying in the same hotel as the Vatican press corps. Several of the young participants told me Friday morning that although they had purchased a full meal package, with tickets for lunch and dinner each day, so far they had…

The Pope’s address: Finally, our gaze should not only be directed to the past, but should also look forward to the tasks that await us today and tomorrow. Our rich common heritage and our fraternal and more trusting relations call upon us to join in giving an ever more harmonious witness and to work together…
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