The ‘House of the Father’, baby news, and the ‘America’ mystery

The ‘House of the Father’, baby news, and the ‘America’ mystery

Hey everybody,Twenty years ago this month — for 10 days in February 2005 — the world watched Rome’s Policlinico Gemelli hospital, as Pope John Paul II fought the flu.He was hospitalized on February 1 that year, with breathing problems — spasms in his swollen throat. The pontiff spent the next 10 days in and out of critical condition.By Feb. 10 he was well enough to go home. to the Apostolic Palace at St. Peter’s. But whatever his doctors tried t…