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It’s always a big concern for American travelers…will we look like tourists? How should we dress and act so we "fit in?" Part of the concern is safety, I do believe. No one wants to be a target. But part of it also stems from, well, wanting to look like you belong in the place…

I just want to clarify something I wrote in the Scavi post. As I recall, the tour guide (who of course was not just doing her own thing, but was acting as a representative of the site managers, aka the Vatican) was carefully-almost-agnostic about the bones. She didn’t quite say "We don’t know" but she…

Mirror of Justice has several posts and ongoing commentary, mostly on the Boston situation. A question at the Commonweal blog, to which Greg Popcak responds Greg’s commentary is also at HMS Jeff Jacoby’s commentary Denver Catholic Charities’ statement (pdf format) – a bit different than SF and Boston.

The Scavi tour offers a perfect, if counter-intuitive lesson in Marketing 101: 1) Severely restrict access 2) Create a strict process for obtaining access 3) Make that process totally mysterious 4) Intimidate inquirers into meek submission And so, my friends, that is why you will find the famed Scavi Tour of the excavations under St.…
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