This Thursday the Pope and Archbishop Dolan will be featured on the Today show, with Matt Lauer reporting from the Vatican. Here is more from <blech> the HuffPost:
In its first visit to the papal state since the death of Pope John Paul II, NBC’s "Today" show will broadcast live from Vatican City on Thursday in an hour-long show that will include behind-the-scenes footage of Pope Benedict XVI and a wide-ranging interview with New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan.
The show, which is being taped Wednesday and Thursday at the Vatican, comes on the heels of the the first meeting of a new Vatican council to promote the church in the face of rising secularism in the West.
A "Today" show producer said the archbishop, who is also the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, will discuss topics including the church’s sexual abuse scandals, the decline in church attendance in Europe, changes in church demographics in the United States, his journey to priesthood and his time as a Roman Catholic university professor in Rome in the 1990s.
How come I just found out that this was going to happen this week? Was it just announced? Not only that but I found out via the HuffPost.
This is a cool thing. Say what you will about Lauer or the Today show, as long as it isn't a hit piece this helps Catholicism and the Holy Father. What is odd though is that it is this THURSDAY, Ascension Thursday, in Rome. I guess moving feast days around in the U.S. has some advantages, as the report says that they have been trying to do this for a while and this is the first opening in the Archbishops schedule. I can't find a whole lot of mention of this event except on Archbishop Dolan's blog.
I will update further once I can get some more time and information. Until then we will have to deal with the HuffPo article.
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