Dear Blog Readers, Last week I took a break from some of the usual news stories I do– Vatican, Politics, Strikes etc, to do a feature story for our entertainment department on the TV series “Borgia”. They were filming scenes for the second season in the little Italian town of Sermoneta. I went with a […]
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Dear Blog Readers, I have been covering Italy since 1994 and the entire time one man, Silvio Berlusconi, has dominated the political scene. At a lunch with a group of journalists in the foreign press about one year ago, when Berlusconi was still clinging to power as Prime Minister, we went around the table with
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I leaned out over the Colonnade that surrounds St. Peter’s Square this morning peering down at the crowd below trying to locate my hero, Jake Finkbonner, the 12-year-old boy who gave the final push to make Kateri Takekwitha the first Native American Saint. Eventually I saw him when he went to get communion from Pope
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I am in the spectacular city of Ferrara in northern Italy, for the “Internazionale a Ferrara”, a festival where journalists from all over the globe get together to talk about their work. I was invited to speak about my blog on a panel with Claudio Rossi Marcelli, a gay father of three who has written
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He once poured red wine for a Pope dressed from head to toe in white, careful not to spill a drop…but while impeccable in his table service, the Pope’s butler was spilling much more, delivering private documents from the Papal apartments directly into the hands of an Italian investigative journalist. The Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele,
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Solo quattro anni fa, Barack Obama infiammava l’animo degli americani con promesse di cambiamento e sogni di un futuro migliore. Si scherzava dicendo che poteva “camminare sull’acqua”. Michelle Obama, sempre con i piedi ben piantati a terra, riportava tutti alla realtà affermando che il marito “russa e ha l’alito cattivo al mattino.” La settimana scorsa
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It was only four years ago that Barack Obama sent the hopes of Americans soaring with promises for change and dreams of a better future. People joked that he could “walk on water.” Michelle Obama, always with her feet firmly planted on the ground, kept things in perspective joking that her husband “snores and has
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Cari lettori, il prossimo lunedì inizio una breve collaborazione con Rai News 24 come analista politica. Avrò il compito di spiegare le elezioni presidenziali statunitensi al pubblico italiano nel periodo delle Convention repubblicana e democratica… e avrò bisogno del vostro aiuto come è spiegato qui sotto. L’ho già fatto tante volte in passato. Nel 2008,
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