Big News Report for the Week Ending Sunday, April 20, 2008

In a Mass at Washington’s Nationals Park on Thursday, Pope Benedict said that, despite the pedophilia scandal, American Catholics should still love their priests. The pope added that, when loving priests, American Catholics should remember to clarify that the loving was consensual. On Wednesday, a crowd at the White House sang “Happy Birthday” to Pope Benedict. While the Pontiff enjoyed the song, he told aides he would have preferred it if people had sung “Fergalicious.” In an interview this week, Barack Obama said that as president, he would “immediately review” potential crimes of the Bush administration. John McCain responded that he would not only review the crimes, he would continue to commit them.