Pope's visit spurs ticket frenzy
Hunt is on for tickets to papal mass in Washington on April 17
Osservatore Romano / Reuters file
Pope Benedict XVI, seen with missionaries at the Vaitcan on Jan. 4, will be holding Mass in Washington, D.C., on April 17.
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By Jacqueline L. Salmon and Michelle Boorstein
washingtonpost.com
updated 2:37 a.m. ET, Fri., Feb. 29, 2008
Washington - With seven weeks until Pope Benedict XVI lands in Washington, the hunt is on for one of the hottest tickets of the year: to the Mass he will offer at Nationals Park on April 17.
Pleading letters and e-mails are flooding into the offices of parish priests. Requests for tickets are appearing on eBay and Craigslist. Diocese officials are fielding phone calls from desperate Catholics as far away as Australia. All to be one of the 45,000 people who will crowd into the stadium for his celebration of the Eucharist.
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