We have plans to spend the next however many days it takes (1 more, by my official bracket position) making twice daily pilgrimages to St. Peter’s Square to smoke watch with a couple thousand of our best friends. Today’s itinerary has been completely designed around trips to the Square at noon and at 7:30, in [...]

As the opening Mass for the election of the next Roman Pontiff began at St. Peter’s Basilica this morning, the skies opened up and a downpour soaked the city streets. Lightening flashed uncharacteristically early in the day as the rain fell so hard that it partially obscured the view of the cupola from our balcony, [...]

  We arrived at the church of Our Lady of Guadalupe around 10:00 this morning, hoping to secure seats for our little family for His Eminence Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s 11:30 celebration of the Holy Mass at his titular parish in Rome. We needn’t have worried, as the bigger crowd was outside the church in the [...]