Pope Francis heads to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan

Dear Blog Readers, This isn’t a proper blog post, just a series of notes as I prepare to cover Pope Francis’s trip to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and South Sudan this week.  I hope to be able to do a much more interesting and informed post when I get back. This is …

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Padua Notes

Last week my daughter donned a laurel wreath with a violet ribbon running through it and grinned from ear to ear as her friends chanted “Dott-O-Ray, Dott-O- Ray” – followed by some silly, lewd phrases that are not repeatable.  It is all part of the university graduation tradition in Italy. To graduate from an Italian …

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