I was in London for business on Tuesday of this week, and the trains were not running. Not all of them were not running, mind. Just the ones on the line from Stansted to Liverpool […]
So, Roberto Benigni caused quite a stir on this week. You remember him from La vita è bella – “Life is Beautiful” in English – for which he won the Best Actor and Best Foreign […]
Rome is the city in which I’ve lived for twenty-three years: almost the whole of my adult life. I love this city, and its people. Some of what I’ve seen this week, though, makes me […]
Before I moved to Rome, I thought I knew what Catholic culture was. I didn’t. I’m actually not at all convinced Catholic culture exists anywhere. I’ve argued against the proposition before, but that was before […]
Parla come mangi. In “correct” Italian, the “g” is soft. In the Roman dialect, it becomes a y-sound, so the word is pronounced: MAN-yee. Literally translated, it says, “Talk as you eat.” That “as” indicates […]
Pane ar pane, e vino ar vino: Literally, “Bread to bread, and wine to wine.” It’s the Romans’ way of saying: “Call a spade a spade.” In the Roman dialect, Damo pane ar pane e […]
We drove our firstborn to the airport today. On the way out, he remarked the countryside through which the highway cut. “You can’t tell me this doesn’t evoke the Shire,” he said. He wasn’t wrong. […]
A while back, I wrote a piece for The Catholic Herald that said, in essence, “Everybody stay calm: things aren’t as bad as they seem; they’re worse.” That piece had as its analytical focus the […]
It is difficult to say whether the figure of Buffalo’s Bishop Richard J. Malone is fundamentally one of tragedy, or of farce. Malone admits mishandling several abuse cases involving both minors and adults. He is […]
The thing is, Pope Francis hit the nail right on the head. Odd as it might sound to hear Peter’s successor say he is “unafraid” of schism, there’s no reason for him to lose any […]
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