Warbler said:

RicOlie_2, Yesterday, I watched on tv the Catholic Mass performed by the Pope on the Ben Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. I have a very questions. What is the very ornate looking book they were using? It is a Bible? It was Gold gilded and decorated on the covers with gold. What is that metal thing they were carrying around that had smoke coming out of it. They were shaking it around. What is the significance of it?

Ha! It's funny to hear it described that way, since it's such a normal thing for a Catholic that we never think twice about it and often we don't think about how odd it might seem to non-Catholics. I'll explain once I'm done my homework.