Guest Column: Pope putting American Catholics in awkward position |
I am a bit of a pope groupie. Anything and everything about the Vatican fascinates me.
When I studied in Rome back in 1984, I would take the 64 Bus to St. Peter’s Basilica every Wednesday, because that was when Pope John Paul II would be holding his public audiences.
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Even though I never had a ticket, I was usually allowed to slip in from the back, because I’d made friends with Sister Lucia, one of the nuns at the Vatican gift shop. She was my religious equivalent of a Prohibition-era window being opened at a speakeasy and saying, “Joe sent me.”
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