![]() ![]() ![]() I’ll like our hotel even if my tortoise nemesis keeps me off the terrace. I respect the hoteliers, and they’re kind to us. I have to accept that about myself.Īgain, I really like our hotel. Not once, but over the next few days, he chased me off that terrace many times. Let me be clear: A small tortoise chased me off the terrace. He kept snapping his jaws and biting my shoes until I got out of there. He came straight for my shoes, with a surprisingly snappy bite and a sharp beak. I assumed he’d be much like the kind of tortoise you see in cartoons - dopey, affable, and prepared to win a race against some intemperate hare.īut I learned that this tortoise didn’t want me on his terrace. He was the size of a salad plate, with a green scalloped shell and the distinctive curved neck of a land turtle. It got faster and closer as I got started on my work.Īnd then, just below my feet, was a tortoise. But as I booted up my laptop, I heard a clomping sound behind me. I had gone out to the hotel’s terrace to sit at a little table in the sun and do some work, as I’ve done many times before. But until this trip, I’d never known about the hotel’s house tortoise. Now, I knew they had a cat, who usually keeps clear of guests. I nearly always stay in the same hotel it’s comfortable, familiar, and family-owned. I’ve been coming to Rome on business for at least the past 10 years, usually at least once a year - but in the years before COVID, and again in recent years, I’ve come two, three, or even four times a year. But this has nothing to do with Vatican finance, exposing corruption, or any other kind of reporting. He wants to take me out, I’m pretty sure. In fact, I’ve got a lot to say about the synod.īut first let me tell you about my Roman nemesis. We’re entering into the home stretch now, with just a few more days of deliberations, and then the votes on the synod’s interim report.Īt this stage, borrowing from the late Arizona congressman Morris Udall, one bishop told me that “everything’s been said already, but not everybody has said it.” Greetings from Rome and the synod on synodality. ![]()
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