Dear Blog Readers — It has been an exhausting day and I am wiped out, but it would be a shame not to tell you all about it. Today’s was Pope Benedict XVI’s last weekly audience in St. Peter’s Square as Pope. Tomorrow he will meet with Cardinals in the morning and at 5pm he …
I spent the day at the Vatican today and I had to keep my head low to keep from getting hit, the mud was flying!!! Not literally though. Literally there was just a steady stream of rain and some hail, but there was nothing to stop that metaphorical mud, and it has been flying all …
Dear Blog Readers — I’m seeing RED. I’ve become obsessed with Cardinals. I am constantly contemplating Cardinals. I stay awake at night fretting about Cardinals and spend my days plotting to get Cardinal interviews. This week I will do a post on the Cardinals who are considered “papabili”, future Pope contenders, but now I just …
Dear Blog Readers– So many of you responded to my post on the Pope’s resignation with questions that I hate to disappoint you all with my lack of information. Working for AP Television I charge headlong into the day doing interview after interview, priests, cardinals, tourists, Vatican analysts and there is no time for deep …
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Holy Smoke! The Pope announced his resignation today, the first Pope to do so in nearly 600 years. My Monday started out with the usual rush to get kids out the door to school and get myself to work. When I got to the office I wrote our daily office “opener” to our London editors …
Patta-thump, patta-thump went my heart as I stood on the altar at the Pope’s mass in Madrid. There were tens of thousands of young people almost as far as the eye could see gathered for the mass and I was standing up on the altar with the entourage traveling with the Pope. But that was …
Get ready….The Pope’s about to Tweet… Today the Vatican announced that Pope Benedict XVI has a new twitter handle @pontifex and is planning to do his first tweet on December 12th, in eight languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Arabic, Portugese and Polish. The Vatican’s new American media consultant, Greg Burke, told a packed press …
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 …