D.C.’s Catholic Oasis

Posted by Tom McFeely

Thursday, January 22, 2009 10:55 AM

The Catholic Information Center features this life-size cutout of Pope Benedict XVI.

Register Executive Editor Tom Hoopes is blogging live from today’s March for Life in Washington, D.C.

The Catholic Information Center is an oasis of faith a few blocks from the White House.

We gathered at the center, which is operated by Opus Dei, to regroup before heading to the Mall.

The kids were dazzled by all the Catholic goodies for sale at the center’s store — everything from framed portraits of St. Thomas More, the patron saint of statesmen and politicians, to Padre Pio scapulars. It also has a great collection of Catholic movies (including, for some reason, the original “War of the Worlds”).

I was on Sirius Radio’s “The Catholic Channel” with Gus Lloyd this morning, reporting from the March.

Gus and I remembered cleaning out the Catholic Information Center of its rosaries to get them blessed by Pope Benedict XVI when he was here in Washington last April. I note that the center has now restocked.

I asked the cashier at the store if the center sold any Obama souvenirs. She looked shocked and said, “Why, no,” before I told her I was only joking.

— Tom Hoopes

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