El chef argentino que cocinó para el papa Francisco recuerda la visita del pontífice a Nueva York | Argentinian chef who cooked for Pope Francis recalls the pontiff’s visit to New York

| 04/28/2025

By: Fernanda Pierorazio

Ismael Alba, propietario del renombrado restaurante Buenos Aires en el East Village, habla con The Good Newsroom sobre cómo fue cocinar para el papa Francisco en la “parrilla sagrada” que construyó exclusivamente para cocinarle al santo padre. Alba también reflexiona sobre su primer encuentro con el papa: “Vi una luz a su alrededor”.

Ismael Alba, owner of the renowned Buenos Aires restaurant in the East Village, talks to The Good Newsroom about what it was like to cook for Pope Francis in the “holy grill” he built exclusively to cook for the Holy Father. Alba also reflects on his first encounter with the pope: “I saw a light around him.”

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Monsignor Kevin Sullivan, Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Reverend A.R. Bernard, and Imam Mehmet Ozalp took time to speak with The Good Newsroom about the importance of holding interfaith dialogues, as the topic of religious freedom can only be upheld if all religions can be free.

By:

Patrick Grady

| 01/16/2026

Pope Leo XIV recalled La Repubblica's 50 years of recounting the history of Italy, the world, and the Church, a constant relationship with readers, freedom of inquiry, and dialogue as the privileged path for peace-building.

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Vatican News

| 01/16/2026

His eventual martyrdom in the face of his opposition’s bigoted fear of positive change is what we observe on Monday.

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Monsignor Joseph P. LaMorte

| 01/16/2026