“National Geographic posts photo essay featuring Mormon life in Italy”

Last updated on: June 2, 2017 at 11:28 pm

June 2, 2017 by Dan Peterson

Ugo Perego and Moroni — Some months ago, my friend Dr. Ugo Perego (second from left) sent me this photo of “the bishops of Rome” — he knows that my one ecclesiastical ambition has always been to bear that title, “bishop of Rome,” which he himself currently holds — posing near the still-under-construction Rome Italy Temple with the statue of the Angel Moroni, which was shortly afterward to be placed on the temple’s highest tower. (I’m guessing, just on a hunch, that not everybody shown in the photograph is actually a bishop.)

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865681247/National-Geographic-posts-photo-essay-featuring-Mormon-life-in-Italy.html

Here’s the actual photo-essay itself:

It’s refreshing and just a bit novel to have a piece like this come out of Europe that isn’t overwhelmingly cynical and sneering about the Saints and their beliefs.

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