Guess who’s coming to dinner? The future pope!

Guess who’s coming to dinner? The future pope!

ROME – Naturally enough, journalists covering the Vatican tend to seek out figures in the system from their own countries or language groups. French speakers seek out the French, Spanish speakers the Spaniards and Latin Americans, the Italians gravitate to their paesani, and, by the same logic, Americans are drawn to fellow Americans. Thus it was that when Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was appointed the new head of the powerful Dicastery for B…

American journalist who covers Vatican shares memory of having future pope over for dinner