Both weddings took place in October, six months after the discovery of the chamber on Capri and its remarkable contents. At the time of this writing, they are excavating a Clovis culture site in West Texas, and planning to return to Italy in the spring. They just found out that Isabella will be bringing their first child into the world next fall. The baby’s gender is not yet known, but if it is a boy, it will be named Giuseppe. Reverend Parker and Father MacDonald co-officiated at both weddings. The lanky Texan pastor and the gray-bearded Scottish priest had become close friends, and while they continued to re-fight the battles of the Protestant Reformation in their lengthy conversations and emails, they did so in a way that honored St. Augustine’s ancient dictum: “In the essentials, unity; in the non-essentials, liberty; and in everything, charity.” Father MacDonald’s parishioners commented that his homilies sounded increasingly Protestant, while some of Reverend Parker’s more conservative church members groused that he was starting to sound like a “dad gum priest.”
