History and life

“Flying rats,” “city plague,” “winged mice,” “urban plague,” “garbage cats”… pigeons do not have a particularly good reputation, to say the least. It is estimated that there are more than 400 million worldwide, and most of them are concentrated in urban areas, an ideal habitat where they can thrive.

It’s not every day you get to speak with someone who has privileged knowledge of their subject and knows much more than they say, which is already quite a lot. A Vatican correspondent for many years, he knows like no one else the complexity of the Church and the power struggles hidden within it. He is very aware that he is facing a reality for which simplistic analyses are not valid.