I'm in New York this week to see a couple baseball games and for general tourism. I've attended a couple Masses at the most famous church in America, the great St. Patrick's Cathedral. Three popes have been in this awesome building! I've been where the pope was! You can follow along in my photo collection on flickr.

On St. Patrick's Cathedral, there are bronze plaques on the front of the building commemorating Pope Paul VI's visit and Pope John Paul II's two visits to NYC.

But there is no plaque (yet?) to commemorate His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI's trip to the USA earlier this year.

However, the Yankees have them plaques already mounted in thier Monument Park, which is basically the team's Hall of Fame. I understand that maybe the Archdiocese of New York just hasn't hung the plate yet. These things take time. There's scaffolding inside and outside of the Cathedral. First things first, I suppose. But where the Yankees are tearing down their own cathedral of baseball next year, they're still erecting new plaques for the Yankee faithful among their other greats.

I think it's funny that the Yankees have three popes in their Hall of Fame. Is there any question that Baseball is God's game? After all, the first few words of the Bible are "in the big inning..."