This it it: I have tried to maintain a certain degree of poise and charity despite the fact that Pope Benedict XVI is celebrating Mass on Sunday at Yankee Stadium (altar mock-up at right) and ignoring Shea. Full disclosure: I am a lifelong Mets fan. That is my pride, and, of late, my shame. But now Cardinal Egan rubs salt in the wounds, 
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posted April 14, 2008 at 11:08 am
does anyone know where else the pope will be visiting like what area’s i live in silicon valley it would be nice to know if he will be visiting our area.
posted April 14, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Sorry, Mick–but Beendict will be an East Coast guy this time out. If there is a next time, he may try the Left, er, West Coast. But you do have the Dalai lama in Seattle this week–he is drawing 50,000 to a sold out stadium as well. East meets West!
posted April 14, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Mick– if His Holiness is planning a visit to California, hopefully it will be to install a new Cardinal to replace Cardinal Mahony as the leader of Wackytown.
David– Just so you know, Pope Paul VI also offered Mass at Yankee Stadium (albeit in 1965, eight years before the Designated Hitter was invented in 1973), as did Pope John Paul II in (uh oh!) 1979.
But don’t be surprised that His Holiness would offer the Mass this (wrongly titled) “cathedral of baseball”. After all, the Lord commanded Jonah: “Go to Nineveh!”
posted April 19, 2008 at 4:01 pm
A thought that might ease your troubled mind:
Yankee Stadium was chosen because Yankee Stadium is in the Archdiocese of New York while Shea stadium is in the Brooklyn Diocese.
Since Cardinal Egan is the Cardinal of the New York Archdiocese it is appropriate that he applaud the home team. I’d bet that Bishop DiMarzio (who heads the Brooklyn Diocese) is a Mets fan.
Yes, I know Shea is in Queens County but it is in the Brooklyn Diocese.