A well-deserved honor for Rocco at Whispers

Photo: Erik M. Lunsford/St. Louis Post-Dispatch

H/T to EM for this link to a story about our friend Rocco over at Whispers in the Loggia. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports:

Rocco Palmo's life has been infused with four major blessings — his large Italian family, journalism, baseball and the Roman Catholic church.

All four will coalesce Friday as the 27-year-old blogger, who lives in and works from his parents' home in Philadelphia, receives an honorary doctorate from the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis. His parents will be there as Palmo gives the commencement address to the seminary's 77 graduates. He'll also watch his beloved Phillies take on the Cardinals this week.

"Rocco has shown that someone with his background — a Christian commitment, but also his abilities and background in journalism — can use the blogosphere in a very powerful way in terms of communicating the message of the church," said the Rev. Richard Peddicord, president of the Aquinas Institute.

Aquinas has never awarded an honorary degree to a journalist, and the only other journalist who has given Aquinas' commencement address was Peter Steinfels of The New York Times in 1993.

(Read the complete story from stltoday.com here)

Palmo and Steinfels: good company you keep, Rock - congratulations!


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