The Pope is coming home

Although the exact details of the visit are still being discussed, Pope Benedikt XVI is planning to visit Bavaria 9-14 September.



Highlight of the trip: three Masses in Bavaria, the largest of which (for ca. 280,000 worshippers) will be in Munich. Regensburg and Altötting will host the other two.

School holidays in Bavaria have been extended by a day (to include 12 September). Not sure why that is, or whether I agree, but what do I know.

The Holy Father has decided not to hang around for the Oktoberfest which starts on 16 September.

More on this here: Papst in München - Merkur Online (in German)

He is due to arrive in Regensburg. The town is so excited they decided to uncover one of the Domes!

He should have planned it for after Oktoberfest... so that everyone has the opportunity to get a clean slate.

What's the favorite beer of the Pope?

Like any good catholic, anything that is free. Me being a recovering catholic.

If the pope has a beer of choice, it's Malteser Weißbier from Stuttgarter Hofbräu.

Is that Malteser Weißbier?

Is that a typo or is that really "Dome"?
How do you uncover a dome?

I think he means the cathedral towers which are almost always covered in scaffolding. This is what it looked like when we were there last May.

I just heard to the radio today that school kids (in all of Bavaria?) will get an extra day of summer vacation this year because of the Pope's visit.

The mass in Regensburg will be in a field next to the Autobahn A3 which will be closed for the duration, and the ADAC (German Automobil Club) is in a hissy fit about it, saying that all the through traffic will be winding its way through Regensburg's old city. As if there weren't enough time to replan a route between now and September.
The mass in Munich is planned for the New Exhibition Grounds in Riem.

According to the local rag, the Pope will visit Freising on 14 September. He has long connections with the town, starting in 1945 when be began studying philosophy on the Domberg, later become a professor at the Phil.-Theol. Hochschule. The Pope's coat of arms contains two symbols relating to Freising; the Freisinger Mohr on the left, and the bear of Korbinian, first Bishop of Freising (AD 720) on the right. The latter symbol is the town's emblem.

Sensation: Papst Benedikt kommt doch nach Freising!
Papst Benedikt XVI. und Freising (click link under 'Allgemeine Informationen')

hey you can see my house in that picture
my house in the middle of the street...

oooh, if our baby is born then, i'll see if we can get a blessing (not that we're catholic or anything, but y'know!)

From today, tickets for the September Masses are available from local parishes (both local and international Dioceses) - more information at Diocese of Munich.

If you do not know which parish you live in, you can find out using the Parish Search Engine.

Remaining tickets should be available on general release after 15th May.

Hey they uncovered the second steeple the other day. Its been a party ever since here in Regensburg...toilet paper or not.

Free tickets for the Gottesdienst on 10th September at Neue Messe have been available to those who are not local parish members since yesterday - go to Erzbistum München if you're interested. I believe 200,000 have already applied

And you can apply online via the above link. No I'm not actually Catholic (I'm neither christened nor baptised). The picklists only ask you to give a "(Erz)Bistum" which can be "außerhalb Deutschland" so if you are a baptised Catholic who is not currently registered for the German Catholic Church but would still like to attend, you can still apply (you might get some post about registering though).

Read the title of this thread "The Pope is coming home" and now I can't get that bloody Lightening Seeds song out of my head.

The pope is coming home,
He's coming,
The pope is coming home,
He's coming.

One cross on his hat,
Christian types revere him,
Saving all your souls,
Now you can be near him.

You'll probably get a visit from these guys:

Freising is of course older than Munich and was the seat of a bishopric when München was just a marshy bog.
Indeed, the diocese is called "Freising und München".

Bear in mind, whether by car or by ÖPNV, traffic anywhere in Bavaria is gonna be MENTAL when Pope Ratbag is around.

why isn't he coming to munich?
we can cover up our church just as well.

i didn't know popes were so easily offended...

ag

While you're photoshopping, ag, maybe you could put a couple of condoms on them instead? More suitable for a visit from the Pope, no?

I'm not sure if the Pope is in favour of double-enders though.

Geesus Carm, I think you dropped something.

OMG! LOL!!!

I laughed out loud at my desk at that one.
Does Johnny English sell those?

<cough> <splutter>
That's a local issue for local people!

I'm off drinking with a mate from Altötting later, I'll ask him to make something up!

Though of course everyone knows already Pope Ratbag placed his hand on my ex's head a while back...

Was he a cardinal at the time, they like purple ?

Only if the towers are HIV Positive though

Talk for yourself there Miss Rockies!

ps- don't have white in my bra collection!

AH! At last! i have discovered the true source of offence in Munich...



ag

Bis Bald!

More religious bollox! Some average old guy comes to town and hundreds of thousands if not Millions of Euros spent on security etc. The pure catholic religion that had no links to the Nazis or the Mafia or even now Dirty filthy Priests abusing children and being moved instead of being given to the Police has another day to celiberate.Religion is a joke that often causes war and more problems than if there was no Religion

If religion causes posts like that it certainly has a lot to answer for.

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I think he is actually. There have been posters plastered inside the Frauenkirche about his visit for well over a month. I can't speak German, so maybe I'm misunderstanding why they are there.

Btw, here's a factoid from TT's second tour guide in residence (#1=nofxmike): The current Pope was Archbishop of Munich and Freising from 1977 to 1982. He held mass at the Frauenkirche. It would make sense for him to stop by to at least say hello or something.

I applied.
I have Pope tickets.
This non-baptised, non-Catholic heathen has Pope Sunday Mass @ Riem tickets.
Seriously, they arrived yesterday, 2 tickets to the Pope.
Means I may now sin until September and then it is all righty? Probably no, I'd have to pay sign up then.

A certain Catlick of my accquaintance said that at least he saw the Boss back when he was good. Unfortunately two audiences did not have the required effect.

Stranger than a strange thing, Ted.

Back when JP II was rocking in the free of sex world (the eighties) was the time to see the Big P live.

Anyway I hope you enjoy it but watch out for the crowdsurfing, the number of crozier related injuries is insane.

i picked that up today

I understand why the schoool holiday's have been extended for this one. As the world's leading paedophile organisation the catholic church obviously wants as many kids to attend as possible.

You can take Pope Ratte out of Niederbayern but...


(from the MVG)

And to think he's had his hands on my ex-boyfriends head!

I heard on the radio last week that during the pope's visit to Munich on Saturday, September 9th, S-Bahns and U-Bahns will not stop at Marienplatz, but will drive straight through. There was also some mention of downtown shops shutting at midday.

I tried to find a bit more info, and discovered a special website set up for the visit, which includes a preliminary programme in English, if anyone's interested. The pope will be touring through downtown Munich in his popemobile from 5 p.m., ending up at Marienplatz at 5.30 p.m., hence the increased security.

Between Sept 9th and 11th there will be a number of traffic restrictions:

• The police website lists roads where cars will not be allowed to park.
• You won’t be able to leave your bikes in the area between Universitaet and Marienplatz. People are requested to remove their bikes from the area shown in the map by September 3rd. Any bikes left there will be removed on September 4th: Map & Info (in German).

Here is info from MVV about what ubahns/Sbahns/trams will and wont be running on what days or at what stations they wont be stopping.
http://www.mvg-mobil.de/papst/index.asp

Saturday 9th - from midday no ubahn or sbahn will stop at Marienplatz. The U3/6 also will not be stopping at Universität, Odeonsplatz or Sendlingertor. (U1/2 will still stop at Sendlingertor)
Busses, 52,53,54,100,123,131,140,141,144,152,154,190 will be diverted / shorted or might just not stop at some stops.
Tram 19 is diverted from haupbahnhof süd, via stachus, sendlingertor because the stops lenbachplatz, theatinerstrasse, Nationaltheater and Kammerspiele are entfallen.

The Pope with travel at 17.00 through Schwabing to Marienplatz where at 17.30 he will speak.

Sunday 10th - The Pope will be at Reim from 9.30am.
Lots of changes to the MVV
U2, U4, U5
Die Linie U2 bleibt in der Nacht von Samstag auf Sonntag in Betrieb und fährt ab Scheidplatz mindestens alle 30 Minuten in Richtung Messe. Ab ca. 4.30 Uhr fahren die Linien U2, U4 und U5 mindestens alle 5 Minuten in Richtung Münchner Osten. Die Bahnhöfe Messestadt Ost, Josephsburg und Kreillerstraße bleiben aus Sicherheitsgründen vsl. ganztägig geschlossen. Die U-Bahnhöfe Giesing, Innsbrucker Ring (gilt nur für U5) und Trudering werden erst nach dem Gottesdienst geöffnet.

S1 – S8
Die S-Bahn fährt ab 3 Uhr alle 7 bis 8 Minuten nach Riem, Gronsdorf, Haar, Feldkirchen und Trudering. Ein Umsteigen von der S- zur U-Bahn ist im Vorfeld der Papstmesse generell nicht möglich!

52, 100, 131, 152, 154
Diese Linien fahren ganztags Umleitungen, eine kürzere Strecke als gewohnt und/oder lassen Haltestellen aus.

139, 194
Diese Linien werden bis ca. 20 Uhr zusammengelegt und fahren wie folgt: Nauestraße – Himalajastraße – St.-Augustinus-Straße – Quiddestraße U – Giesing Bf. U/ S – Krankenhaus Harlaching.

146-Ost, 192
Diese Linien werden bis ca. 20 Uhr zusammengelegt und fahren folgenden Weg: Iltisstraße – Florastraße – Quiddestraße U – Neuperlach Zentrum U.

146-West
Die Busse pendeln bis ca. 20 Uhr zwischen Ostbahnhof U/S, Friedenstraße, Ursberger Straße, Kreillerstraße und St.-Veit-Straße.

189, 190
Diese Linien werden bis ca. 20 Uhr zusammengelegt und fahren folgenden Weg:
Arabellapark U – Daglfing Bf. S – Rennbahnstraße – Steinhausen – Max-Weber-Platz U.

193
Diese Linie entfällt komplett, bis die Wasserburger Landstraße und der Bereich um den Truderinger Bahnhof wieder befahrbar sind.

http://www.polizei.bayern.de/verkehr/index.html/19099

for those of you with cars, here is info on where you can and cant park during this weekend and what roads are closed when.

You cant park on Leopoldstrasse or Ludwigstrasse all weekend and they are closed Saturday from 6am until approx 8pm.

Who in their right mind would want to see this clown in the first place , I seen the last pope on Leopold Str by accident and was not impressed at all an old man in a glass box going about 70 kph boring if you ask me

@Sea-king-I will find it very interesting if the pope drive his own porsche in Munich instead of that glass box that you mentioned.

Our Aussie Rules grand final is on 9 September. Maybe he'd be up to doing the coin toss...

My U-Bahn is running all night on that Saturday! Means I can spend the taxi money on more drinkies! The old guy defo could pop(e) around more often!

... or maybe he like to turn up to "toss the boss"

We could ask him to stay for quiz night indeed... special rounds on Euchristie and Inquisition maybe?