I had a chance to visit Paris last week for a few days. Unsurprisingly it was great fun, even if I had to cover my eyes when looking at the pricetags in bookstores and on menus. I also had dinner one night with a friend, a French academic who spent a semester at Notre Dame a few years ago. He casually mentioned that he had enjoyed some recent pieces, which he identified by name, in......Commonweal. (He reads on the website.) So we may not be well known inRome, at least according to John Allen, but we do have a few European admirers.