T-Shirt Businesses Are Getting Creative For Pope's Visit
By Hadas Kuznits
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- T-shirt makers are bracing for the pope with new faith-inspired designs.
Scott Soffen, the force behind the T-shirt website "faithadelphia.com/phaithadelphia.com" says with the World Meeting of Families coinciding with the Jewish high holiday Yom Kippur, he decided to make a shirt that says, "Good Yontif, Pontiff 5776."
"That's an old phrase in the old Jewish community that we say around this time of the year." says Soffen. "It's just a fun phrase and I don't know why I put it on a shirt, I've never seen it on a shirt before."
He also has a shirt that says "Yo Pontiff Philadelphia" and several shirts incorporating the Pope and Philadelphia sports teams.
"Special events like this really allow you to get creative and when you see something click on your creativity, it's very exciting!" says Soffen.
Soffen has several other pope shirts available for sale at faithadelphia.com.