Italy’s Next Pope? Not.

Berlusco for Pope!

I've no idea who created this photo-montage, or where it came from, but knowing Italy as I do, I found the unholy combination, highly amusing.Oddly enough, I found this charming photograph of Silvio Berlusconi in fancy dress gazing out at me from a computer screen at the business school.I … [Read more...]

The Vatican is Anti-Berlusconi!

Yep, it's official, well almost. There have been quite a number of news stories about the new 21st century sins that the dear old Vatican has come up with. And here they are, the sins, that is, in no particular order, at least I don't believe so:Environmental pollution - Change you car - or … [Read more...]

The Pope’s passing away

Unless you happened to have been very well off beaten tracks at the time, you will, by now, be well aware that the Pope has died. TV programming has just about returned to normal, after having dwelled upon the death to an amount which almost bordered on bad taste. But then this is Italy and the Pope … [Read more...]

The Pope

As I write this entry, we are coming to the end of an epoch, or that is how the media here are putting it. The Russian news agency TASS apparently carried the news this evening of the Pope's death, a little prematurely. Most of the TV channels here have been carrying either vigils from St Peter's, … [Read more...]