Just a puny personal pronoun, yet one that perhaps spoke volumes about MSM attitudes toward religion. On the occasion of the Mass that Pope Benedict XVI will be celebrating later day [1] at DC's Nationals Park, Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez interviewed Father Thomas Williams, a Roman Catholic priest who also serves as a CBS religion analyst.

For the liberal media, even a subject as seemingly innocuous as a nice spring day can suddenly turn into a PC minefield should it put an MSMer in the position of having to recognize God's work, as this exchange suggests.

View video here [1].

MAGGIE RODRIGUEZ: Other church leaders are here as well: 14 cardinals, 250 bishops and 1,300 priests. One of them is our very own Father Thomas Williams, he's a CBS analyst as well as a papal scholar. Good to be here with you again this morning.

THOMAS WILLIAMS: Great to be here, very exciting.

RODRIGUEZ: Another beautiful spring day here in Washington, DC.

WILLIAMS: God is smiling down on Washington today.

Let's stop right there for a moment. Imagine that a priest has just remarked to you that "God is smiling down" today. You want to respond in an agreeable manner. What would 99% of people say? Surely something along the lines of "yes, He is." But did that pose a double dilemma for Rodriguez? Not only would she have had to acknowledge the existence of God, but in a manner that might suggest God is a He. Gadzooks! What's a good MSMer to do? Here's how Maggie dodged the divine bullet.

RODRIGUEZ: It really is.

"It"? Perhaps it was just a slip of the tongue. But as SNL's Church Lady used to say, isn't that conveni-e-e-e-nt?