After his dramatic departure just over two months ago, the former Pope, Benedict XVI, returned to the Vatican today to take up residence in a small monastery inside Vatican walls. On February 28th the newly resigned Ben XVI took off from the Vatican in a helicopter and whirred over the city as thousands of people […]
Today was a sad day in Rome. Two policemen were shot and one critically wounded as they stood in front of the Prime Minister’s office this morning. But more on that in a minute. It started off as a slow Sunday for me. After weeks of struggling to form a new government, finally 47-year-old Enrico
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Dear Blog Readers — I realize I risk boring you with my continuing posts on Marrakech, but my daughter Chiara insisted that I do a post using the photos that I took of animals in Marrakech which I would sum as the easy and tough life for animals in Marrakech. Anyone who has travelled in
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Every evening Hassan Aghandor serves up steaming bowls of snails at Food Stall Number 3 in Marrakech’s Jemaa el Fna Square while carrying on a steady stream of conversation with a crowd seated around him on stools. Last March, he explained to me, on the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, he had some unexpected guests.
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Dear Blog Readers – I am in Marrakech for four days enjoying a much needed break. My husband Gustavo is here for a conference so I have had time to meander about on my own. I am entranced by this city, one gets swept up in the throbbing intensity and exotic romance. As I walked
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My heart and mind have been focused on the past few days on my hometown of Boston following the bomb explosions that have killed three people — an adorable 8-year-old boy named Martin Richard, a 29-year-old woman named Krystle Campbell with a beautiful smile, and a 23-year-old Chinese student fron Shengyang named Lu Lingzi who
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Rome is going through a Francesco frenzy. People love Papa Francesco, or Pope Francis. This past Wednesday at his weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square the crowd, including lots of young people, went wild chanting “FRAN- CHESS- CO” “FRAN- CHESS-CO” as he went through the square in his Popemobile. My colleague AP photographer Gregorio Borgia
Dear Blog Readers- After a month of intense coverage of the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Pope Francis, I’ve been taking a break from work, spending time with my family. Today I was walking into Rome’s auditorium to hear my daughter Chiara sing in a concert as part of the Santa
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