Steadily they walked, well-dressed, serious, each carrying a staff or a lit candle about a meter long, even the children. Over the two hours or so that we watched, there were hundreds of them—men and […]
This week we find ourselves in another one of those anomalous liturgical situations, wherein the Universal Church celebrates the Solemnity of Corpus Christi on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday (as is the case in the […]
Rome sizzles in summer heat. The sun glares down remorselessly on shoppers thronging the streets around St. Maria del Populo, where the priest has just finished celebrating the last morning Mass. I had wanted to enjoy […]
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