Of the vast array of saints in the Catholic Church, one of the most fascinating, brilliant, and complex has to be St. Augustine. He lived in the fourth century, so it was still relatively early…
Random thoughts on my last day in Roma
You know it's an amazing week when the least dramatic thing is celebrating Mass at the tomb of Blessed John Paul II...which we are able to do this morning. That's not to say it wasn't…
FOLLOWING POPE FRANCIS…
So this morning, Pope Francis made his first visit outside of the Vatican to the Basilica of St. Mary Major to pray to the Mother of God, the protector of the Roman people. It's an…
A New Holy Father
Now that I've caught my breath a bit - it's still somewhat unreal that 16 hours ago we met the new Pope - or rather, our new Holy Father Francis.It's amazing to me how "right"…
FRONT ROW VIEW TO HISTORY: A New Holy…
Simply overwhelmed. I have never experienced something like this and Right now it's just streams of consciousness- the square of St.Peters Basilica, filled 3 times for 3 hours each time with tens of thousands (and…
POPE FRANCESCO
HABEMUS PAPUMPope Francis: his first words Brothers and sisters good evening. You all know that the duty of the Conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother Cardinals have gone…
Second black smoke.
Well that was disappointing... We had front row spots, perfect location for the new Pope to come out of the balcony and ... BLACK SMOKE The bizarre thing was the number of media outlets that…
Black smoke = No Pope
So by now you've probably heard there was not an election of a new Pope today. Not that any of us really expected it that first (although standing in the cold and rain for four…
PRE-CONCLAVE “SANTA MESSA PER L’ELEZIONE DEL ROMANO PONTEFICE”
We were up nice and early today... Left the hotel at 7:15 for a ten o'clock Mass (remember that next time your running late to Mass). By the time we got there , about 10…