Dear Blog Readers— My blogger buddy Adri Barr Crocetti, the famous foodie who reveals her secrets on her blog adribarrcrocetti.com, asked me this week if I was going to write about the vandal at the Colosseum, so here goes… It was mid-morning last Friday when a security guard working in the Colosseum spotted a 42-year-old […]
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Dear Blog Readers, For the past few days I have been covering the Second International Conference on Nutrition at the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome. I was not planning to write about it on my blog but a blog reader asked me to, so here I go. Since 1996, I’ve covered several World
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Dear Blog Readers – Here is a quick update to my earlier post (Back to Lampedusa) on visiting the Portuguese ship Viana Do Castelo. When my AP Television colleague Paolo Santalucia and I visited the ship last Wednesday there were no migrant spottings, but on Friday night the ship kicked into action overnight with their
Dear Blog Readers— I am back on Lampedusa – that little slip of an Island that is a closer to Africa than to Italy – the destination for tens of thousands of migrants every year. (See Blog Post: Lampedusa: Europe’s Port). This time I am back for a story on the beginning of Operation Triton,
Father David Rider and Father John Gibson pull up creaky chairs on the wooden stage at the North American College and slide off their black work shoes revealing serious black priests’ socks. Father David slips his feet into metal tipped dancing shoes while Father John laces up his Irish dancing shoes with fiber glass tips
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Dear Blog Readers — I am drowning in the Vatican’s Synod on the Family — ever since the Relatio (preliminary document) came out on Monday, the conservatives are blaming the progressives for going to far and the progressives are blaming the press for spinning the story. Members of the press are interviewing other members of
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This week an extraordinary meeting began at the Vatican. In Vatican words it is the “Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Pastoral Challenges on the Family in the Context of Evangelization.” Huh? What’s that? It is a meeting to discuss and seek answers to some of the hottest questions facing the church
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MMiM If you are male, STOP RIGHT HERE. DO NOT READ ANOTHER WORD. PHEW. Got Rid of Them. OK, female Blog Readers, on with this post. TOP SECRET – I think Mozzarella Mamma is in menopause (MMiM). OH, WOE IS ME! How can it be true??? Now — why would I think that? Among other