Pope trip: Friday Mar 28 Roundup

Five of the freshest papal visit stories:

• Jeffrey Tucker takes an extended look at the Washington DC papal Mass at TNLM.
• US News & World Report publishes a lengthy treatment: "Pope Reaches Out to American Catholics"
• Christendom College gets a special mention in "Pope to Meet with Catholic Colleges and Universities"
• John Allan has a brief update on papal visit preparations as part of his Weekly Column.
• Reuters has published it's first report on the pope's upcoming speech to Catholic educators:

"Pope Benedict likely will walk a fine line between trampling on academic freedom and laying down the law on orthodoxy when he meets with top U.S. Catholic educators next month, experts and observers say."

Note the choice of violent images: "trampling" and "laying down the law". And while I agree with the author that it takes precision to accurately relate academic freedom to orthodoxy, it is not true that these two realities are as necessarily opposed to one another as this sentence makes out. This sort of mindset, indeed, is why we need the pope to explain how these two concepts actually support and harmonize with one another.