John XXIII Chapel

Several of the new friends that I met several weeks ago are seminarians. (Of course they are.) One in particular is a student at the North American College (which is the American seminary in Rome, where inexplicably, some Australian students also study). Two weeks ago I was among several people invited to the NAC to visit the John XXIII chapel – the bowling alley. Pope Blessed John XXIII was gifted a bowling alley, that he didn't have a use for, so he promptly re-gifted it to his neighbors at the NAC. Going to this bowling alley was like a step back into the 1950s. The furniture is all plastic and 1950s modern sea foam green, with ash trays built in.

I had not been bowling in a long time (because Maryclaire will never go with me) but I am proud to say that I did not come in last place during the game.