Hello everyone, I just got back from Italy and am incredibly jetlagged. I am not posting to boast about my vacation but wanted to share some political impressions from my time overseas.
My stay in Italy was about a week, driving around Tuscany in a rental car. We were based out of rented house in a tiny hilltop community called Vellano, near Pescia. We went as far south as Chiusi, but mostly stayed closer, making day trips to Pisa, Lucca,Florence, and Siena.
I, as an American, am inclined to think of rural communities and small towns as conservative. As a lapsed Catholic, I, in the past, have imagined that Italy was Ratzinger country, all aboard for the kneejerk destruction of Vatican II. But what I found in Italy was actually very different.
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