SQPN: Catholic Insider

Today, we're on the road again. After a cup of coffee we'll take the bus to Zeist where we will walk through the woods to my office at the Pastoral Service department of the Archdiocese. We'll talk about the pope, exorcisms, woodpeckers and Microsoft sharepoint. All in one podcast! :-)

I'm back in Holland, and in this podcast I'll take you outside in the snow for another soundseeingtour. But there's also some unexpected passion in today's show!

Can you podcast from within an airport? Or is that considered to be a security-threat? In this podcast, I am about to find out when I am taken away by four securityguards of Rome's Ciampino airport. "Hey, I'm a priest, not a terrorist!" Will I ever get to do my soundseeingtour of Europe from the plane to Holland?

Podcasting is a relatively safe and innocent activity, right? Well, some peope are not so sure about that! In today's Catholic Insider Podcast, I was planning to take you on a soundseeing tour of the Ciampino Airport in Rome on the day of my departure for Holland. But things turned out to be a bit different from what I had in mind...

In today's show, I'll tell you all about my day behind the computers of Vatican Radio, helping them to start Podcasting. Plus: listeners'feedback, exorcism and Star Wars. Oh my gosh!

Today, I'm taking you with me on a very special soundseeing tour in a place where no tourist has gone before: inside the imposing palace of Vatican Radio! We'll be exploring the offices, the studios, a hidden chapel, the Vatican's only Apple Powerbook, the pope's personal piano and we'll take a look at all the high-tech equipment in there. We'll talk to several people about their work, and of course: we'll try to convince Vatican radio that they should get into podcasting!!

This morning the sun is shining in Rome, the sky is blue and the smell of fresh bread and cappucino fills the air. I'm leaving early to take you with me to one of the nicests places in Rome: the small streets of Trastevere. There's lots to see, and lots to hear.

In today's podcast, I'm taking you on another soundseeing tour to a place not many of you will have ever visited. A place of both death and life, of darkness and hope, below the surface of the city of Rome...

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