This article is trenchant, mildly acerbic, biting, caustic and cutting. Read at your own risk. The White House was soundly chastised in the media for not sending a high ranking official to the massive Paris rally for global solidarity. Referring to the gaffe, the President said “Although Attorney General Eric Holder was already in Paris, […]
Singing Nuns and the Pope’s garage sale
What would be the most unbelievable song an Italian Nun could sing? Couldn’t be Madonna’s ‘Like a virgin’ could it? Or could it? Pope Francis is not the only one who is roiling the church. Italy’s singing nun, Sister Cristina Scuccia, is the winner of “The Voice of Italy” and that’s the song she chose. […]
Pope Francis: “My other car is a Pope-Mobile”
The Pope-Mobile’s bumper sticker showed that things were changing in the Vatican. It read ‘My other car is a Ford Focus’ Pope Francis has proven to the world that he is a man who is changing Vatican protocols and talking about concepts that some see as radical thinking. To fund his program of feeding the […]
Pope vows “I’ll never use ‘Mapquest’ again.”
Papal motorcade takes a ‘wrong turn’ in Rio; gets surrounded by well-wishers. After getting his motorcade lost in the easily navigable streets of Rio de Janeiro Brazil Pope Francis said, “I’m hiring those union drivers back. There’s only so much money you can save before the whole thing turns south. And for Mapquest, south sometimes […]