Dear Blog Readers, Last Thursday I was between editing the Pope’s Easter Thursday Chrism Mass (where he blesses all the vats of oil to be used in Rome parishes for the year), covering an Amnesty International press conference on how they will be monitoring hate speech used on social media by politicians running in the …
Dear Blog Readers – Pope Francis is neck deep in Easter Week celebrations and I have the distinct feeling he is tired. He said it himself Thursday morning in the Chrism Mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica. The Chrism Mass is the annual Mass held on the morning of Holy Thursday during which the Pope blesses …
Today I decided to take my two daughters shopping. But since times are tight for everyone, and my wallet is not exactly packed with money, I introduced to them a new kind of shopping — window-shopping. And there is no better place to do that then the center of Rome. Perhaps because it is the …
Every year I enjoy covering big events at the Vatican. Aside from my job as a journalist who needs to cover the event and worry about the significance of the Homily and the health of the Pope, I enjoy the show. The Vatican knows how to put on visually dramatic, spectacularly colorful, deeply meaningful performances. …