The Pope came to Genoa this weekend.
He arrived Friday evening and the traffic headaches began. Unfortunately for the gathered crowds, it has been pouring with rain since his holiness's plane touched ground. But the heavy rain didn't scare the faithful... nor the protesters - the usual suspects - the angry left, socialists, anti this and anti that who want to get their face and sign on CNN as well as the Mayor of Genoa who marched with the pro abortion protesters.
Thankfully the clouds did briefly ease up in time for mass this afternoon in Piazza della Vittoria. While all that was happening in Genoa, Sam and I had a lovely lunch with Silvia and Ian, their kids and our kids. Then when all the dishes were done, we played Buracco. Ian and I against Sam and Silvia. Ian and I kicked #ss and won.
Back to the Pope.
Ratzinger toured Savona and the city of Genoa including the Gaslini Children's Hospital. Click here for the very biased AFP take on the weekend and here for the more balanced, if you can say that, IHT report.
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