Details on tickets to papal Masses remain sketchy, as deadlines pass

Published: 2008-01-15

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Your chance of getting a ticket to Pope Benedict XVI's April 20 Mass at Yankee Stadium might depend on whether you live in a diocese close to the Archdiocese of New York or in one of the nation's oldest archdioceses. Or it might just come down to sheer luck. The precise formula that will be used to distribute tickets to the Yankee Stadium Mass and other events during the pope's April 15-20 visit to Washington and New York has not yet been made public, but some details are emerging. Dioceses from Anchorage, Alaska, to Syracuse, N.Y., have been posting notices on their Web sites about how to request tickets for the papal Mass at Yankee Stadium, which holds 65,000 people, and an April 17 Mass at Nationals Park in Washington, which will seat up to 45,000 people for the event. But the various notices make one thing clear: If your opportunity to request a ticket has not already passed, it will soon.

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