There’s always been something faintly comical in the messianic media coverage of Barack Obama, but with the arrival of Pope Benedict XVI in Washington this week, the treatment of the junior senator from Illinois looks sillier than ever.

Both men come bearing a message of hope. Yet only one of them has any real prospect of imparting it, because the Hope he brings is real and true and eternal (and comes from the actual Messiah).

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