WASHINGTON — With seven weeks until Pope Benedict XVI lands in Washington, D.C., the hunt is on for one of the hottest tickets of the year: to the Mass he will offer on April 17 at Nationals Park.
Pleading letters and e-mails are flooding into the offices of parish priests. All to be one of the 45,000 people who will crowd into the stadium for his celebration of the Eucharist.
The Washington Archdiocese, which controls the tickets to the Mass, is still working on how to distribute them. So far, it has announced that it will give 14,000 tickets to 120 other archdioceses. Arlington, Va., will receive the most: 6,000.
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