Vincenzo Randazzo wasn’t 100 percent sure how this stop was going to work out. It was June, and he was on a bus with 20-some college students winding along the rugged hillsides between Rome and Naples, with hopes of touring a tower where St. Thomas Aquinas had famously been imprisoned by his brothers aiming to dissuade him from the Dominicans.
In April, Vincenzo Randazzo livestreamed an hourlong video Facebook discussion with Auxiliary Bishop Andrew Cozzens on the COVID-19 pandemic, prayer and a range of other topics. He called it “Quarantine with Cozzens,” and he did a second, similar interview in May.
Bundling takeaways from the fruits of a Siena Symposium for Women, Family and Culture that my wife and I recently attended reminded me that I should read the third chapter of Genesis — expulsion from Eden — more thoroughly.