Dear Blog Readers, While we are all waiting to hear who Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2013 is, I thought I would share with you Mozzarella Mamma’s choice: Pope Francis –Mozzarella Mamma’s Person of the Year 2013 Ok, I admit I am biased because I had a front row seat at his election, I’ve …
Dear Blog Readers — Here is a brief post on the Pope’s visit to Assisi. Last Friday, October 4th, Pope Francis made a whirlwind trip to the Umbrian hill town of Assisi, home of his namesake, Saint Francis of Assisi. He came in a helicopter from the Vatican and arrived at 730 am and seemed …
I heard the news on the car radio as I was heading to Assisi to cover the Pope’s visit there. Two hundred and fifty people missing after a floundering ship full of immigrants caught fire and sunk half a mile from the shore of Lampedusa. A frenetic rescue operation was underway involving local fisherman, Coast …
Dear Blog Readers — This post is just for those of you who are interested in the Pope, the Vatican and the Catholic Church. I found the interview that Pope Francis gave to a Jesuit journalist so fascinating that I am going to pull out long quotes on various topics and put them in below. …
He’s blown off the Papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace to sleep in a residence, he doesn’t bother with red shoes or fancy lace, he makes cold-calls to people who write him letters, he gives homework at his weekly audience, he kisses every baby he can, and stops to hug anyone who is sick or …
Dear Blog-readers — Pope Francis has just left Lampedusa and it has been a goose-bump experience. What you see above is a freeze frame of video I shot, yes me, running in front of the Pope’s car with his security guys shoving me aside. But let me take a step back and tell you all …
Cocktail season has arrived in Rome…. a series of swanky events at elegant Roman Villas owned by foreign embassies. The biggest one that attracts the crème de la crème of Rome is the US Embassy Fourth of July party in the extensive gardens of the splendid Villa Taverna, home to the US Ambassador. There you …
It has been a busy, wacky week in Rome with Harley Davidson’s roaring through the center of the city, and the press in an uproar about a “gay lobby” at the Vatican. As this acoustic and verbal storm has whirled around me, I’ve been happily working on a feature on street performers in Rome, filming …
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