After listening to various speeches- some quite fascinating (more on which later), and some in rapid fire Italian so noisy one could not hear one’s translator in the headphones, I decided to foregoing the afternoon sessions to see the town. It might be good I did. When we got back to the venue it was entirely blocked off by heavy police presence and protesters were packing up and going home. I picked up a flier they left which said a conference on Family is evil and satanic (seriously!) for not celebrating so-called alternative lifestyles as “equal” to natural families. The seriously mixed up culture of our day. The city’s mayor and a huge number of city officials were present as speakers at the event though, so maybe Sodom and Gomorrah can be saved.
And the city is worth saving. More details later, but here is a glimpse.
More to come, D.v., with a Latin exercise for our scholars.
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