I Don’t Know Whether I Want to Spend Family Weekend With My Parents or the Pope
By Sofia Garcia
Oct. 12, 2016
Family Weekend is here, which means that students will get the opportunity to spend the weekend with their parents in what is sure to be an emotional and rewarding three days. My own parents will be driving to Chicago in order to see how I’ve been adjusting to the University, and are very excited to spend time with me. This is why I don’t know how to tell them I’m thinking of buying plane tickets to Rome to visit the Pope. Don’t get me wrong, I love my family and all, but they aren’t exactly the highest authority in the Catholic church.
My mom is a great woman, with a charitable heart and ceaseless energy
Never mind that meeting the Bishop of Rome would be a learning opportunity that one would be remiss to pass up! Not only have Popes