"Do you want an audience with the Pope?” asked Vatican “fixer” extraordinaire Dr Peter Bahou, owner of New York-based Peter’s Tours, while we were doing an interview at the Kolbe Hotel in Rome a few weeks ago. “I have two spare tickets.” With Amanda Bowman, who chairs the Catholic Herald Institute in New York, I jumped at the opportunity.
I duly dressed in a dark suit and tie, and at 7.30 the next morning we were led through clipped topiary past the austere Casa Santa Marta, where the Holy Father actually lives as opposed to the
