Meeting the Pope ( story )
This is a repost. This is a good news , a good story, a personal expereince of a reporter meeting the Pope PDI reporter teary in Rome for losing bag, meeting Pope By Juliet Labog-Javellana Inquirer Last updated 03:42am (Mla time) 06/10/2007 VATICAN CITY—Meeting the Pope was an experience next to none. Coming as it did the day after I was robbed of my belongings, the opportunity to meet Pope Benedict XVI in his private library could not have come at a better time. While being led to the high-security Apostolic Palace past the Vatican Gardens at the back of St. Peter’s Basilica and up to the papal residence by elevator, I already got goose bumps. Even the air smelled holy. The moment I was called to approach the Pope as he stood in the reception hall of his magnificent library, I felt my knees tremble. And when the Holy Father looked down at me, smiled and extended his hands in welcome, I completely broke do...
