Caring for Your Beloved Catholic: Second Stage

I was very touched, when the pope died, to receive emails from non-Catholic blogging friends around the world, giving me condolences, on account of, though they know me not in three-dimensional reality, they know from my blog that I'm Catholic. So they sent me condolences. Now, the Catholics didn't write me -- why should they? I didn't write them, either. We all just went to Mass. Well, and then we sat around and discussed the likely outcome of the conclave. We know it's a waste of our time. We can't help it.

Anyway, I thought it was very sweet, getting all those emails from the non-Catholic leftists. The world is sometimes a very charming place.

I take it as a marker that things have moved on, and the cyber friends no longer thing I need to be stuck in a sunny room with some tea, that in an email from one of the non-Catholic leftists, I received this link to the iPope.

(I gather she thinks it's time to move on; it's time to enter the "gentle joking" stage. Does Emily Post address this?)

(Thanks, hon. Very sweet.)