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Roman courtyards. Always Intriguing.

Of…last week’s General Audience. This was my second GA, but the first indoors.  I really do think I prefer the indoors experience, simply because you can get a better view of the Pope. I got there super early because I woke up early and really had nothing better to do. So I hopped on the…

Loosely speaking. I think the most astonishing visual experience I had on this trip took place on the journey back, from Rome to Gatwick, when, at about 6:30 in the morning, we started flying over the Alps. Now, some of you world travelers have done this many times, but allow this neophyte to marvel a…

Two hilltop shots. This is not the greatest, but my camera battery was flashing red, so I was at the point at which I could only turn it on for about 1.7 seconds.  Therefore it was basically all about flicking on, pointing and shooting. At whatever was there. So this shot from the Janiculum Hill…

Divisions within Catholicism have been a frequent subject here.  In contemporary American Catholicism, ideology often trumps Christ, something Pope Benedict himself noted on his visit last spring: I ask you, in the Lord Jesus, to set aside all division and to work with joy to prepare a way for him, in fidelity to his word…

The Protestant Cemetery in Rome is a different place. Different than the ancient monuments, the Baroque churches, the bustling commercial life. Tucked away behind the Pyramid of Cestius, it is lush and crowded with slabs of silent stone remembering the dead, mostly English and Americans who came to Rome, stayed for a while, and died.…

…of another kind: As I mentioned, Wednesday night, I did an accidental Station Church type thing as I attempted to find out what was going on in churches in the center between 6 and 8. This was not something I planned, but something that struck me as interesting when I walked into a Holy Hour.…

Friday morning, after I’d finished at St. Peter’s, I had some time to kill before meeting David at 11 in front of S. Maria di Trestavere. So, over to the Center for a bit. I disembarked in front of the Chiesa Nuova, which is the church of S. Philip Neri. It was about 9 o’clock,…
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