{"id":3216392,"date":"2025-11-30T17:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ur1stop.com\/blog\/?p=3216392"},"modified":"2025-11-30T18:28:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T18:28:05","slug":"reporters-notebook-thanksgiving-weekend-in-turkey-with-an-american-pope-next-stop-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ur1stop.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/30\/reporters-notebook-thanksgiving-weekend-in-turkey-with-an-american-pope-next-stop-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporter's Notebook: Thanksgiving weekend in Turkey with an American Pope, next stop Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Early on Sunday, we learned the Vatican\u2019s chartered Airbus 320, which had ferried Pope Leo XIV<\/a>, his entourage and 80 journalists to Turkey on Thanksgiving Day, was safe for travel after its software had been successfully updated. <\/p>\n

Our flight to Lebanon is on. Hallelujah!<\/p>\n

I have been on nearly a dozen papal trips<\/a> as a Fox News reporter and producer, but four days into Pope Leo\u2019s first international pilgrimage \u2014 this one takes the cake … or maybe a reference to a pie is more appropriate? Is this peace-pilgrimage trip to the Middle East just pie in the sky?<\/p>\n

We certainly had pies in the sky on the flight from Rome. I was seated next to a colleague who brought a pecan pie (which smelled divine, no pun intended) and behind two who gifted our Chicago-born pope home-baked pumpkin pies. Pope Leo was over the moon! Our Thanksgiving meal was less exciting but appreciated, served with a menu, real silverware and cloth napkins.<\/p>\n

POPE LEO XIV BEGINS LEBANON VISIT AMID ECONOMIC CRISIS, HEIGHTENED SECURITY CONCERNS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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