From The Crowd At Yankee Stadium

Here for your reading pleasure are a few comments from the crowd at Yankee Stadium for Pope Benedict's mass:

"I have never seen Yankee Stadium so beautiful, and I have season's tickets," said Philip Giordano, 49, a tax attorney from Greenwich, Conn., who won seats in the loge section behind home plate through a parish lottery. "It sure beats sitting in my local church.

How's that for gratitude?

Added his wife, Suzanne: "I'm hoping to feel something from (Benedict). Everyone who has seen him says they crumple, their knees buckle. You come away just feeling different."

And my favorite from my home boy and sweetie:

New Orleans crooner Harry Connick Jr., on the pre-Mass concert program, remarked that he is often asked if he's a practicing Catholic.

"Practicing?" he said. "I'm playing for the pope today." (my emphasis)

From the Associated Press.