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Pontif-fatigue

My head spins between the media barrage around newly elected Benedict XVI and the effective trailers for NBC's Revelations.

Pope-pooped and drifting in and out of sleep, I murmur to my companion from the TV divan

"Poor bugger - only just elected and they throw *this* at him."

Perfect casting of Natascha McElhone as the earnest soeur. She has that grave beauty I like in my nuns.

And you just *know* that, however conservative Ratzinger may be, Sister Josepha Montafiore will be right there, genuflecting 19 to the dozen and twice as austere.