With regard to papal bling, Almost Girl raises the excellent point that the lavish celestial stylings of Pope Benedict are not exactly consistent with the humble saintly stylings of Saint Benedict.  This taps into an eternal tension with spiritual bling, one on which I'll have more to say later today when I'm not running the good race out the door.

However, a pop-up just now miraculously hijacked my computer with an ad for a piece of heavenly bling that I think all can agree raises no deep moral quandaries, since, in the end, we all live in his world: