BBC Correspondent David Willey, Longtime Vatican and Papal Chronicler, Dies at 93

BBC Correspondent David Willey, Longtime Vatican and Papal Chronicler, Dies at 93

EWTN News spoke to the journalist in February about his more than 50 years covering the Vatican.

BBC correspondent David Willey, longtime Vatican chronicler, dies at 93

David Willey, a BBC correspondent whose career in Rome spanned more than 50 years and five papacies, died July 11 in Italy at the age of 93.From being a student taking in the pomp of Pope Pius XII carried in a ceremonial throne to traveling the world with St. John Paul II to writing about the changes brought by Pope Francis, Willey saw “a complete revolution so that people saw the pope much more as a personality rather than in a hierarchical sen…