A Jesuit Runs the Roman Marathon.  On 22 March, Father Leopold Slaninka, a member of the Roman community of St. Peter Canisius and responsible for the Slovak programme of Vatican Radio, took part in the Roman Marathon.  He ran the more than 42 kms in a time of 3 hrs and 31 minutes resulting coming in 629th for his category (40-45 years). The Marathon registered over 11,690 entries, and together with all the other categories there were in total more than 100,000 participants. Father Leopold ran his personal best for the first half of the race (21 kms) with a time of 1:34.  Congratulations!