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.