Theme and Logo for Pope's Trip Announced

I knew that papal visits usually had a theme, but a logo?

The pope is coming to visit New York and Washington April 15-20.

Anyway the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has released both the theme and the logo this week.

Theme: Christ our Hope, a reflection of Pope Benedict's latest encyclical "Spe Salvi."

Logo is here: http://www.uspapalvisit.org/mediakit/

Logo designer Donna Hobson, director of publications at The Catholic University of America explained her goal with this design.

“I wanted to incorporate the papal colors—yellow and white— and my vision was to show a welcoming, arms-open, smiling Pope Benedict,” she said.