Rocco Palmo of Whispers in the Loggia polishes up a superb idea from the blog Pewsitter.com ! The Pewsitter blog writes : Well instead of sending, an instant message when Benedict XVI arrives in the United States… every Catholic parish in the country should ring their church bells for ten minutes to joyfully welcome the Bishop of Rome. Communities should [ask or encourage their parishes to] participate in the joyful welcome of the Holy Father on April 15 [Tuesday]. Precisely at 4:00 PM, EDT, Benedict’s Catholic flock should participate in the joyful ringing of Catholic Church bells throughout the United States. Rocco thinks (as do I) that ten minutes might be a bit "much." It also leaves out Parishes without bells. So, Palmo suggests: In addition to this, even for those places without bells, maybe the hour of arrival -- again, 4 PM Eastern on Tuesday (3 Central, 2 Mountain, 1 Pacific, Noon in Alaska, and 10am on Hawaii) -- could be marked across the trenches with s