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April 2015

April 24, 2015

Officials say terror suspects may have targeted Vatican in 2010

From The New York Times: An investigation into a terrorist cell in Sardinia may have...

April 21, 2015

Bishop Finn resigns

From Associated Press: Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert Finn, who...

March 2015

March 07, 2015

Female staff increases at Vatican, but few are in leadership positions

From CNS: The number of women working for Vatican City State has nearly doubled in...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

Homeless man buried in Vatican cemetery

From Crux: Pope Francis was not involved in an early January decision to bury a...

February 16, 2015

Homeless line up for haircuts, showers at Vatican: “It’s a beautiful thing he has done for us”

From AP: Homeless people are lining up outside the public restrooms off St Peter's Square...

January 2015

January 15, 2015

Vatican, French imams issue joint declaration condemning Paris attack

From AP: Four leading French imams and the Vatican issued a joint declaration Thursday denouncing...

January 09, 2015

Vatican theologians unanimously declare Oscar Romero a martyr, clearing way for beatification

Image from The Archbishop Romero Trust Details: The Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero was murdered...

January 06, 2015

About those new cardinals: the Vatican’s explanation

From Vatican Radio: Father Federico Lombardi, SJ, head of the Holy See Press Office, has...

January 04, 2015

Pope names new cardinals “from 13 countries from every continent”

And: No one from the United States is on the list. The Wall Street Journal...

December 2014

December 27, 2014

Topless woman who snatched Baby Jesus from Vatican freed

Details: The Holy See has released a radical feminist activist who bared her breasts in...

December 17, 2014

Vatican diplomacy and release of Alan Gross: “Pope Francis personally issued an appeal in a letter to Obama and Castro…”

From The Washington Post: Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) received a phone call on Tuesday...

December 16, 2014

It’s here: Vatican report on U.S. nuns

From CNS: A massive, detailed Vatican-ordered investigation of U.S. communities of women religious ended with...

December 11, 2014

Here come more cardinals: Vatican announces consistory for February

From Vatican Radio: The seventh meeting of the “C9” Council of nine Cardinals tasked with...

November 2014

November 14, 2014

“If I were The Sovereign Order of Malta, I’d be miffed…”

With those words, blogger Elizabeth Westhoff offers some insight into the ancient order to which...

November 14, 2014

Patti Smith, Sister Cristina to perform at Vatican Christmas concert—UPDATED

From Huffington Post: Sources close to Patti Smith confirmed to The Huffington Post that she...

November 13, 2014

Pope commissions showers for the homeless under the colonnades at St. Peter’s

Remarkable: "Father, I can’t go to the restaurant with you because I smell." Franco is...

November 13, 2014

Is the pope purging conservatives?

Short answer: no. Still, after the recent news about Cardinal Burke, some think so. But Fr. Dwight...

November 08, 2014

Kasper: “The pope is not a liberal. He is a radical.”

Details: Just days before the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops opens its annual fall meeting,...

November 08, 2014

It’s official: Burke to Malta

After the longest run-up, the least surprising papal move of the year: At Roman Noon...

October 2014

October 18, 2014

It’s here: final Relatio of synod, plus speech of Pope Francis—UPDATED

Hot off the press. Translations are rough, and need some polishing, but you get the...

October 18, 2014

Cardinal Burke confirms transfer: “As priests, we always have to be ready to accept whatever assignment we’re given”

In an unexpected interview with a surprising news outlet, BuzzFeed, Cardinal Raymond Burke discusses the...

October 18, 2014

The final message from the synod

Or, at least, from this first two-week session. The second half kicks off next year....

October 17, 2014

From the synod: African cardinal says pressure groups are trying to change Church teaching

From CNA: Inaccurate media reports about Church teaching on homosexuality published after the Extraordinary Synod on...

October 17, 2014

Cardinal Pell: Relatio was “skewed…it didn’t represent accurately the feelings of the synod fathers”

From CNS: Cardinal George Pell said working-group reports from the Synod of Bishops on the...

October 16, 2014

Fights! Misunderstandings! Gossip! Welcome to Vatican II

A lot of people have sought to make comparisons between the current synod and Vatican II....

October 16, 2014

From the synod: revisions, corrections and additions

From the Catholic World Report: Two minutes into the press briefing at the Vatican press...

October 15, 2014

From the synod: was something lost in translation?

Here's an interesting take on the relatio, from Catholic News Agency: An incorrect translation into...

October 14, 2014

Holy See press office issues clarification on the synod relatio : “It is a working document”

This just in: The General Secretariat of the Synod, in response to reactions and discussions...

October 13, 2014

“An earthquake at the synod”

That's how veteran Vatican reporter John Thavis described a document released this morning: In pastoral terms,...

October 12, 2014

The synod at half-time: “The climate of freedom…is producing positive results”

A little analysis in the pages of America, from Gerard O'Connell: Participants who have attended...