I’ve been doing some tweeting about it here . I called the Saturday night Hyde Park prayer vigil “the ultimate peace rally.”
The pope and the tea party—these are not unrelated things. They shouldn’t be, anyway. My thoughts, inspired by the pope’s first homily from this visit to the United Kingdom, in Glasgow, are here .
This pope and another: George Weigel and I talked about his new book and got into Benedict here .
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