Pope Benedict XVI is in America and, like his predecessor, is about to be treated to curiously bipolar coverage at the hands of the American press. While in-country, John Paul the Great received almost universally positive treatment. But up to the point the papal wheels touched down, the media reports were consistently critical — some verging on the savage — and when it was wheels-up, the press immediately returned to their old ways.

The tone this time around will not be so ...

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