ROME – Sometimes a week on the Vatican beat doesn’t offer up one grand narrative, but instead supplies a series of vignettes illustrating the state of play across a variety of fronts. Such was the case over the last seven days, with events ranging from lofty questions of geopolitics to the grubby challenges of urban traffic, all capturing some truth about today’s Vatican.
Saturday night’s big event was the first edition of “World Children’s Day,” which brought together an estimated 50,000 young children from all around the world to Rome’s Olympic Stadium, including groups from both Palestine and Ukraine.
