Domain Hoarder

The following article appears in the newest edition of the Texas Catholic, the newspaper for the Catholic Diocese of Dallas:

A self-described "domain hoarder" who used to live in Texas says he will be cautious with the pope-related Web address he registered earlier this month.

Rogers Cadenhead, a former Fort Worth newspaper reporter who now lives in St. Augustine, Florida, registered BenedictXVI.com well before the new pope's name was announced.

"I'm going to try to avoid angering 1.1 billion Catholics and my grandmother," Cadenhead said. Cadenhead, a Catholic, said he registered eight names last month.

Having the right domain name can prove lucrative. Recently, bidding on eBay for a similar name, PopeBenedictXVI.com, had surpassed $16,000.

But Cadenhead apparently isn't asking for money. On his personal Web site,
Cadenhead wrote that in exchange for the domain name, he would ask the
Vatican for "one of those hats", a free stay as the Vatican hotel and "complete absolution, no questions asked, for the third week of March 1987."

Some among the hundreds who have e-mailed him in recent days are concerned
that he might sell the domain name to a company that creates adult Web sites. He said he wouldn't do that.

Any guesses as to what he did that third week of March 1987?? And just what is "one of those hats?"