At the height of the U.S. visit of Pope Francis, two students from Villanova University were interviewed by The Washington Post about their experience studying abroad in Rome and interning at The Vatican.
The two 21-year-old seniors, Melissa Connolly and Tatum Murray, spent spring ’15 on Villanova’s Vatican internship program which includes study abroad opportunities with Arcadia University in Rome. One of their tasks was to create social media communications for Pope Francis.
Both students spoke about how their internship, which involved working for The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Social Communications and its site News.va – a site that combines the Vatican’s newspaper, radio, television and online media. Read the article on: The Washington Post.