[Convert from ECUSA]

:))))) May the Lord bless and guide Pope Benedict XVI, and may our Lady assist him in every way. May he restore liturgical disciple, clean up the liturgical mess, and may he clean up the seminaries. Already the wreck-o-vationists, chittiserites, and carpetbaggers are crying in their Evian and stamping their feet, so obviously something must be going right.

[Salvation]

Pope Benedict XVI celebrates his first mass in the Sisitine Chapel at the Vatican City. Pope Benedict XVI pledged to work towards Christian unity and dialogue with other religions, seeking in his first homily as pope to allay widespread fears that his papacy would be one of unflinching conservatism.(AFP/Arturo Mari)