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Happy Friday friends,
I am in Rome. The papal funeral is tomorrow, and it’s crowded here.
At least where I am.
“Where I am” is the lobby of the Vatican press office, which seems to be struggling a bit under the sheer volume of journalists trying to collect their accreditation.
It is a delightfully simple system. A modest-sized folding table with several hundred passes laid out in a rough approximation of alphabetical order, which a cleric in a brown leather jacket sifts through balefully, asking you to stop if you see your name. Eventually, someone loses patience and cuts the line to start rifling through the cards themselves and then Babel breaks loose before order’s resemblance is restored.
Continued below.
www.pillarcatholic.com
I am in Rome. The papal funeral is tomorrow, and it’s crowded here.
At least where I am.
“Where I am” is the lobby of the Vatican press office, which seems to be struggling a bit under the sheer volume of journalists trying to collect their accreditation.
It is a delightfully simple system. A modest-sized folding table with several hundred passes laid out in a rough approximation of alphabetical order, which a cleric in a brown leather jacket sifts through balefully, asking you to stop if you see your name. Eventually, someone loses patience and cuts the line to start rifling through the cards themselves and then Babel breaks loose before order’s resemblance is restored.
Continued below.
Waking a pope, the Becciu Test, and Francis and the Freemasons
The Friday Pillar Post
www.pillarcatholic.com
