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David Green's avatar

This sounds to have been a wonderful well-organised retreat, especially for any first-time visitors to Rome. I have accompanied James around Italy in general, and Rome in particular, on many occasions and I know that the participants could not have had a more knowledgeable and enthusiastic guide, although as his father I must confess to perhaps a little bias in this opinion! To be told authoritatively about historical events at the site(s) where they actually happened is both an enlightening and a humbling experience. I hope that this becomes a regular event and that in the extremely capable hands of Evan and James it garners the support and patronage that it clearly deserves.

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Chronic Joy's avatar

Were you able to include any part of Jewish Rome, especially The Great Synagogue? I realize that your focus is on Christianity, specifically Roman Catholicism and its many beautiful, indeed breathtaking treasures, from art to architecture and everything in between, but Jewish stories and scriptures are the source for much of the art. If we want a renaissance and renewal of the *best* of Western civilization, culture, philosophy and art; if we want the flourishing of humanity, along with the flourishing of the planet and her myriad creatures, we cannot ignore any of the foundations upon which it was built, or any of the great values, principles and ideas that were borrowed and assimilated into that culture, and from which we make meaning individually and collectively.

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