The inaugural edition of this series is HERE, in which I explain a lot more.
Some time ago, I saw a movie called News of the World in which after the Civil War a former confederate officer earns a meager living by wandering about reading to crowds articles from newspapers he has gathered. People pay a dime a head to listen, which figures to about $2.50. In those days news was scare and many couldn’t read at all, so there was great interest and emotion over the news of the world he brought. The idea of this travelling gazetteer caught my imagination and here I am. The word Gazette came into English through French but it’s origin is Italian, gazzetta, which is the name of the Venetian coin which paid for the first first Venetian newspapers in the 16th century. Here is today’s audio “gazette” of Catholic things.
00:15 – Init
01:11 – The Wanderer – It’s possible foreign priests will have to leave because of changes to immigration policy.
05:26 – Benedictines of Silver Stream Priory – Life in the monastery
12:15 – A Lenten Christmas card
16:40 – Inside The Vatican – Changes to slow down the new conclave?
30:53 – The Wanderer – Kidnapped Nigerian priests released
33:30 – Voyager I has gone mad.
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Thank you, Father. I packed a pipe and listened while the weather was still nice and the sun sunk behind the mountains. The Voyager article was especially poetic and enjoyable.
mister: Feedback! Always appreciated. That Voyager story was too good not to share.