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— 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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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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After five days in Venice chasing after George Clooney and his bride Amal Alamuddin, I am finally back in Rome. I had a blast covering this story because it was completely different from most of the work I do for AP Television. Let’s just say that chasing after Clooney in a water taxi in Venice
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I am writing this post while I rock gently in a water taxi on the Grand Canal in Venice in front of the Aman Hotel. I am slowing getting asphyxiated on the engine fumes as we hover here. On board are eight people, three photographers, two camerapersons, an assistant and me. We are all waiting
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Dear Blog Readers, I am on a train headed from Rome to Venice where I will be spending the next five days with the AP television team covering the George Clooney wedding extravaganza. As we all know, the world is going to hell in a hand basket. Members of the Islamic State are decapitating journalists,
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