Saturday, July 21, 2012

What River is That?

Heard by some seminarians on the same bus as that carrying the Australian bishops to St Paul's outside the Walls, during their last ad limina visit to Rome: "What river is that?" – as the bus carried them over one of the Tiber bridges.

The Rhine flows into the... what?

So much for our successors of the Apostles having even a merely natural level of ordinary education.

Quo vadis indeed!

(Surely Cooees has better sources than I – why haven't they picked this up?  How slack.)

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