The Pope's Visit

For anyone interested in religion in the modern world, you have the opportunity at the moment to explore a ton of media coverage in response to Pope Benedict's upcoming visit to the United States, the first of his papacy. I'm pretty sure Jesus and his followers would have had a hard time envisioning the Pope saying mass in Yankee Stadium (though I suppose the Roman Colosseum and Yankee Stadium really aren't that different), and I thought I would also post an image of the new Pope-mobile (a bullet-proof Mercedes in honor of the Pope's German heritage), which I'm really sure the first Christians wouldn't have been able to imagine. Here's a NYTimes article on Benedict's most recent comments about the sex abuse scandal in the US church