...screaming, roaring crowd...shouts...cheers...tears...music is booming thru the speakers...the tune sounds very familiar but doesn't seem too religious...wait, I know that voice *listening*
"P.O.P.E.B.E.N.E.D.C.T do you know what that means? P.O.P.E.B.E.N.E.D.C.T do you know what that means? He got his own house. He got his own car. Pray hard all day. Talking to God. You see the Pope (bow down), you see the Pope (bow down), you see the Pope (bow down), you see the Pope (bow down)."
OMG!!! It's Lil' Boosie hyping it up for the Pope! Spelling his name wrong and everything! This crowd is crazy...I need to be selling t-shirts!
LOL!! Okay, enough foolishness. Everybody knows by now that the Pope is a rockstar. He's in D.C. today doing a huge mass. 46,000 worshippers filled Washington Nationals stadium on a clear spring day and cheered Benedict as he arrived in a white popemobile, standing in the back and waving.
Pope Benedict XVI covered some tough issues in his address. He praised America as a land of opportunity and hope Thursday as he celebrated the first public Mass of his U.S. pilgrimage, but he lamented that the nation's promise fell short for Indians and blacks.
He turned to the clergy sex abuse scandal that rocked the American church, saying "no words of mine could describe the pain and harm inflicted by such abuse." He called for healing and reconciliation and assistance to the victims.
In an address to U.S. bishops Wednesday night at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Benedict called the scandal a "deep shame." He decried the "enormous pain" that communities have suffered from such "gravely immoral behavior." He also said the problem needs to be viewed in the wider context of secularism and the over-sexualization of America, and called for "a determined, collective response."
You tell 'em Benny.
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