“What good is it to light a little candle in the darkness?” Pope Francis asked at a prayer vigil to open the Synod on the Family. “Isn’t there a better way to dispel the darkness? Can the darkness even be overcome?” I thought of a friend back in L.A. who, just before I’d left for […]
ROME
THE PROTESTANT CEMETERY
The other day my field trip was to the Protestant Cemetery, a crumbling old brick-walled (that’s redundant in Rome) cemetery where non-Catholics who croaked here, among them Keats and Shelley, are buried. I walked along the banks of the Tiber, my favorite spot, as far as I could to get there. Here’s another great thing […]
