Castel Gandolfo Stories


Papal Gardens

These past couple of weeks I have been helping out with the orientation process for all the new men who have arrived for their first year in Rome (please see my NAC orientation journals from last year for a detailed description of what it involves). It has been a tough but rewarding process to plan, organize and finally implement the orientation. We h...


3rd day

Sunday August 28 we traveled a few miles south of Rome, into the mountains, to the papal summer residence: Castel Gandolfo. It is perched over lake Albano, which you can see it is circular because it is formed from a volcano. Just last week my brother saw (he told me about a mile away) Pope Benedict in Cologne, Germany for World Youth Day and I was...