WASHINGTON • Pope Francis's visit to the White House, on his first full day on American soil, came on the day Yogi Berra died.
As Yogi once said: "That's too coincidental to be a coincidence."
Because, as Yogi also said, "Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too."
Now Yogi, the baseball sage, master of head-scratching wisdoms, who grew up Catholic in St. Louis and attended Mass all his life, gets to test another of his Yogisms: "Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours.