Fun story that David Wright and I did aired on PBS News tonight. Inspiration came from a Saturday afternoon drive.

Uprooted from its former home in Providence, an historic Christopher Columbus statue finds a new home nearby. Our latest story for Rhode Island PBS facebook.com/10005814852877…

Another compassionate report from Matt Frei in the West Bank

Go #Bills!

Amazing! And in the snow, no less.

First the Pink and now the Brick Bar? Very sad to see these Allen St icons go away. I hope Nietzsches & Gabriel’s are safe. #Buffalo #BillsMafia

Looked like a beautiful send off for Pope Francis today. Sad not to be there. Opinion | When Pope Francis blessed my iPad bostonglobe.com/2025/04/26/opi… via The Boston Globe

Habemus papem! Can’t wait to see who it is…

About now, he’s probably in what they call ‘the room of tears,’ putting on the white cassock for the first time. We can only imagine the emotion of that experience

Having been in that crowd in the piazza twice now, there’s a mood of hope and excitement. Part of the delicious mystery of an election where the results are announced by smoke signals.

Here he come!!!

An American pope!

Cardinal Prevost has taken the name Pope Leo XIV. Leo 13 was known as the Pope of Labor. He reigned during Teddy Rosevelt’s time

I kept hoping to hear some English in there. But he certainly seems comfortable in Latin, Italian and Spanish.

Pope Leo’s most recent tweet as Cardinal (h/t Rocco Palmo)

Apparently the first Pope Leo met with Atilla the Hun and convinced him (with the help of a miraculous apparition of Saints Peter and Paul) not to invade Rome. Later, during the Renaissance, Raphael painted the scene! museivaticani.va/content/museiv…