Well he's off now. But one good thing is that approaching 20000 atheists (original estimate was 12000), humanists and assorted cheesed off religious folks marched against the pope. It's often said that organising non believers is like herding cats, after all the humanist and secular organisations who put this together are tiny organisations compared to the bus parties and millions of pounds that went into organising the 80000 folks not so far away.
Here's a couple of pictures I took as part of the event (click to see 'em bigger)...