Whispers in the Loggia: Papal WristTweet

Friday, July 17, 2009

Papal WristTweet

Still at Aosta's Parini Hospital (above) after breaking his wrist overnight, the Pope's condition is being updated in real-time on the wire's Twitpage....

Here, the latest:

Italian news footage shows pope walked inside hospital emergency room with his aides.

Pope insisted he get no special treatment at hospital. He waited his turn for X-ray, operating room.

Meanwhile, fresh word says the now-completed surgery to re-set B16's wrist was "successful," and the Vatican spokesman Fr Federico Lombardi SJ has categorically denied that B16 lost consciousness before the overnight fall that caused the fracture.

PHOTO: Reuters

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One of global Catholicism's most prominent chroniclers, Rocco Palmo has held court as the "Church Whisperer" since 2004, when the pages you're reading were launched with an audience of three, grown since by nothing but word of mouth, and kept alive throughout solely by means of reader support.

A former US correspondent for the London-based international Catholic weekly The Tablet, he's been a church analyst for The New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, BBC, NBC, CNN and NPR among other mainstream print and broadcast outlets worldwide.

A native of Philadelphia, Rocco Palmo attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. In 2010, he received a Doctorate of Humane Letters honoris causa from Aquinas Institute of Theology in St Louis.

In 2011, Palmo co-chaired the first Vatican conference on social media, convened by the Pontifical Councils for Culture and Social Communications. By appointment of Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM Cap., he's likewise served on the first-ever Pastoral Council of the Archdiocese, whose Church remains his home.

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