A Busy Birthday for Pope Benedict

Pope Benedict had an active birthday today on his first full day in the United States, meeting with President Bush, speaking his harshest words yet about the sex abuse among the priesthood (at least he's addressing it early and often!), and then decrying secularism in our country as one of the root causes of the scandal. Awesome. Yes, I think it's fair to say that he's off to a hell of a start here.

And the Supreme Court gave Pope Benny a special birthday gift. The Pope doesn't much care for the death penalty (life is sacred, after all), so the Court was kind enough to rule that lethal injection is totally fine. Let the executions continue!

Happy birthday, Pope!