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$\"\"$ <\/a>I\u2019m excited about Greg Burke\u2019s new job.<\/strong> Last week, the Vatican announced that they\u2019d enlisted the Fox News correspondent to serve as senior communications advisor at the Vatican\u2019s Secretariat of State.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m excited because officials at the Vatican\u2014God bless them\u2014need all the help they can get.<\/strong> Newswires have been full of bad news for the Roman Curia: Vatileaks has been the latest snafu, but there\u2019s the Vatican Bank scandal, the decade-long clergy abuse crisis, liberal outcry following the Pope\u2019s Regensburg lecture\u2026.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m excited, too, because I remember Greg Burke from years ago,<\/strong> before he went to Fox News, before the career events listed on the AP wire and on his official bio. I remember the pre-2001 Burke.<\/p>\n

Around 1999-2001, I was producing a fairly new morning show<\/strong> in the Catholic market, \u201cKresta in the Morning.\u201d (Yep, that\u2019s the show that is now heard nationally during afternoon drive time with the catchier title, \u201cKresta in the Afternoon\u201d.) We went on the air at 6:00 a.m. Eastern Time, and it was hard\u2014no, it was near impossible!\u2014to attract guests for interviews when folks in the Eastern time zone were just rolling out of bed, and those in the rest of the country were happily squeezing their pillows.<\/p>\n

How to fill the earliest time slot on the show? NEWS FROM ROME, of course!<\/strong> In Roma, it was already 1:00 p.m. and the Romans were lingering over pranzo (lunch), dining on insalata caprese and sipping espresso at the local trattoria. It was the perfect time to reach the Vatican Press Office!<\/p>\n

So each morning, we called in and got a report on the news of the day right from the Eternal City, from one of two English-speaking reporters: American expatriates Sabrina Arena and Greg Burke. \u00a0I loved his reports, replete with personal stories about the Pope\u2019s breakfast or the General Audience or visitors from the States.<\/p>\n

Congratulations, Greg, on the new challenge.<\/strong>\u00a0 May God grant you wisdom and fortitude\u2014because this time, you\u2019ve taken on a whale of a responsibility.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"