Word: piazzas
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...This deployment arrangement would be a bit of a personal sacrifice, forcing me to miss the big moment in the piazza. But as the permanent Rome correspondent, I know my way around the press office and the local bookstores better than my colleagues from out of town, who could collect the color and reaction from the crowd. Still, even after seven years in Rome, I continue to forget how things really work here. The bookstores were closing down just as I arrived. The owners also wanted to be in the piazza for Habemus Papam! And so thanks to them...
...Vatican official put it. While I salute Jordan and Marguerite, who brought TIME's coverage in Rome to another level, I'm set to cover this papacy from the outset. I will make sure to keep one foot in the bookstore and the other in the piazza - and do my best to miss neither the story, nor the experience...
...Fabrizio Magnani, a 65-year-old real estate broker was on his way to meet a client near St. Peter's when the radio announced white smoke and ringing bells. He parked his car as soon as he could and joined "a river of people" rushing into the Piazza to see who would be the new pontiff. "In Rome, the pope is something all our own," he said, waiting in the raucous square just minutes before the name was announced in Latin. "We're used to seeing him out here every Sunday, every Wednesday. And when there's no pope...
...more than two decades. And the Romans, and Italians more generally, will be the first to gauge how "Cardinale Ratzinger" will evolve into "Il Papa." His predecessor, who was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years, won over many hearts the very first evening he spoke to the Piazza: "I will speak in your, OUR language," he toned to the faithful below. "And when I make a mistake, you will correct me!" Ratzinger already speaks flawless Italian (as well as half-a-dozen other languages), and may have won over some with his moving homily at John Paul...
...tonight, he will have to speak directly to the people, who will inevitably judge him against the standard of his imposing predecessor, friend and boss. This small, unassuming white-haired figure who we will now and forever know as Benedict XVI told the piazza this evening that he was just a "simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord." Now he must begin to fill the role of pastor, of leader of the flock, a shepherd who can move the faithful and cast his own large shadow across this grand piazza, this blessed city, and a turbulent world outside...