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Highlights from papal homilies and addresses; From the 'no sense of humor' file
Posted on Jan 11, 2008 09:44am CST.| All Things Catholic by John L. Allen, Jr. | |
| Friday, January 11, 2008 - Vol. 7, No. 18 | |
College football fans probably felt a bit deflated this Tuesday, since the Bowl Championship Series, always their favorite time of year, came to a close Monday night. For Vatican devotees, Tuesday likewise brought a twinge of melancholy, and for much the same reason: the annual "bowl championship series" of papal teaching, which begins in mid-December with a message for the World Day of Peace, ended Monday with the pope's address to the diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See.
