God Save the Queen, er, Pope

British Baby with Papal Flag

The media called it "a rousing encounter" that the Pope had yesterday with schoolchildren in the UK. He said among other things that maybe they would be saints one day if they played their cards right. Afterward, the BBC News Hour polled them to see what they thought. One child said it was the first time she’d ever seen the man. “He doesn't come here every day - it's not even like once a year!" (Just sayin, Your Holiness.) Another said it was a great honor indeed for him to be there and he wanted to thank his teacher Mrs. Williams for drawing his name out of the hat. (Only he said  'Mrs. Willy-ums'  in that cute English way.) The best was the third child who stepped gamely up to the microphone, then did a sort of verbal hiccup and went “What are we talking about again?” That happens to me all the time.You can't blame him if he had trouble following it all. I know the Pope is German and certainly he does better in English than most of us would do in language but when you listen to him you do kind of think Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes, no?[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF7cJh302n0]