Monday, Sept. 13

We are in Avignon, a spectacular walled city where the Pope lived when there was a split with Rome in the Catholic Church. In fact, 9 popes lived here over a period of 100 years until the split within the church was healed and they returned to Rome. But we visited the Papal Palace today. It was quite evident that in the 12th and 13th centuries, the church was into 'power and money' and sort of lost sight of what Christianity was supposed to be about!