Dropping down into San Cristobal de Las Casas in a helicopter and seeing all the beautiful faces and traditional clothing of the indigenous people there waiting for Pope Francis was for me the most exhilarating moment of the Papal trip to Mexico. AP Television VJ Paolo Santalucia and I were chosen along with three other […]
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Dear Blog Readers – I am just back from Pope Francis’ six-day trip to Mexico and have so much material – speeches, photos, videos, and memories–that it will be hard to boil it down into one blog post. So it is going to be a two-part series and it is mostly going to be a
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Dear Blog Readers— On Friday I will be traveling on the Papal Plane to Mexico (with a brief stop in Cuba) for AP Television. The Associated Press will have a four-person team on board. I will be working with Video-Journalist Paolo Santalucia, AP Rome Bureau Chief Nicole Winfield for AP wire and Gregorio Borgia for
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Dear Blog Readers – There never seems to be a dull moment in Rome. I don’t know if it is the weather, the food, the history, the art or the fact that the Pope is here, but all the movers and shakers of the world have a habit of stopping by rather regularly. Over the
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My cell phone rang at 6:27 am last Thursday. It was AP Television Rome’s Senior Producer Maria Grazia Murru. “Can you be on a train for Florence in half an hour. It leaves at 7:05. The prosecutor in the Ashley Olsen murder case is giving a press conference at 10am.” I had been following this
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Dear Blog Readers, Since we are all caught up in the pre-holiday frenzy and surely no one has much time to read blog posts, I will keep this one brief. This week I covered the December 8th opening of the Jubilee Year of Mercy at the Vatican. During this event, Pope Francis pushed open the
Today I had to cover a press conference on the preparations for the Jubilee of Mercy which starts in Rome on December 8th. It was organized by the Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi in a fabulous room in the Lateran Palace (part of the Saint John the Lateran Complex in Rome). I was working with my colleague
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Last week I had the rare opportunity to dedicate myself for two days to a feature story in Florence, the restoration of Lorenzo Ghiberti’s North Doors on the Florence baptistery and the making of a replica. After becoming discouraged about the current situation in Rome (see last post “Ravishing, Rotten Rome”) it was refreshing to
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