GREAT WHITE POPE - KING GETS AUDIENCE AT VATICAN: Pope Benedict is one busy entertainer. Today he exchanged pleasantries with no doubt a man after his own heart, Russia’s blood-thirsty tyrant President Vladimir Putin. Next up in Benny’s murderer’s row lineup: Don King.

The NEW YORK POST reports King will have an audience with Pope Benedict at the Vatican on March 21. He set up the meeting through an Italian boxer named Luca Messi, for whom King promoted a fight two years ago.

I wonder if King’s life as a “numbers racketeer“, and his manslaughter conviction - which got him four years in a federal penitentiary - will come up?