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November 2015

November 21, 2015

“A Brotherhood of Crime”: Five Charged in Leaks of Vatican Documents

Three former Vatican officials are among the five people formally charged by the Vatican on November...

November 13, 2015

Just In: Statement from the Holy See on Paris Terrorism

This just out from Salt + Light TV: The Holy See Press Office has released...

October 2015

October 27, 2015

No Changes Yet in Roman Curia, Pope Confirms in New Letter

Last week, word broke that Pope Francis had established a new dicastery, essentially streamlining the...

October 24, 2015

Synod Fathers Publish Their 94-Paragraph Report

By Andreas Tille (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 ()], via Wikimedia Commons The XIV Ordinary...

October 22, 2015

For His Feastday: The Day I Met Pope John Paul II

It was September 2004. I was conference director for Legatus, the organization of Catholic CEOs,...

October 14, 2015

Pope Francis Apologizes for…. Well, for Everything.

At his Wednesday General Audience today in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis set aside his planned remarks...

October 13, 2015

What Did the Cardinals Really Say? Some Insights In Their Own Words

Well, it's been an interesting week for Synod-watchers! In what John Allen has wryly called...

October 03, 2015

Happening Now: Join in the Prayer Vigil for the Synod

Right now in St. Peter's Square, pilgrims are participating in a Prayer Vigil on the...

October 02, 2015

Vatican Now Distancing Itself from Kim Davis?

At first the Vatican would neither confirm nor deny that Pope Francis had met with...

September 2015

September 29, 2015

New CD Recorded in the Sistine Chapel Features “The Music of Popes”

Here is a wonderful idea for Christmas gift giving: Beautiful music from a beautiful place....

September 23, 2015

What Pope Francis May Have Seen Inside the Vatican Embassy

Pope Francis slept last evening at the Vatican Embassy on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington DC, more...

August 2015

August 23, 2015

NO, There Were No Ashley Madison Clients From the Vatican!

Last week a shocking headline insinuated that Vatican employees--perhaps priests or even bishops?--were among those...

August 08, 2015

A Song Fit for a Pope: Charles Gounod’s Great Pontifical Anthem

So there is such a thing as a "Papal Anthem"? Who knew?! The Papal Anthem--more...

June 2015

June 28, 2015

Monday, June 29: Opening Day for Vatican’s New Secretariat for Communications

We knew that Pope Francis was planning a reorganization of the Vatican's wide-reaching communications offices....

June 25, 2015

FAITH MEETS SCIENCE: Vatican Enlists Tattoo Removal Lasers to Clean Priceless Artwork

An intriguing report out of England: The Vatican has hired Lynton Lasers, a tattoo removal...

June 19, 2015

An Unexpected Privilege: The Day I Attended Mass with Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger

Talk about being in the right place at the right time! It was September 2003,...

June 16, 2015

Hot Times at the Vatican, As Pope’s Climate Change Encyclical Is Leaked to the Media Four Days Early

There’s trouble at the Vatican, where Pope Francis’s much anticipated encyclical Laudato Sii was leaked four days...

June 01, 2015

Pope Francis Gets a White Rose of His Very Own

Visitors to the Vatican Gardens and the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo will soon...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Pope Francis Is Going to Revise Vatican Media–Again?!

Pope Francis has set up a five-person committee to streamline and modernize the Vatican's many...

April 16, 2015

Breaking: Vatican, American Sisters Strike a Deal

Some very good news! The Vatican and the American Sisters have acknowledged their common mission...

April 16, 2015

Did Turkish Hackers Shut Down the Vatican Website?

Could this be true? Several news websites are reporting that the official Vatican website, vatican.va,...

March 2015

March 20, 2015

Pope Francis: “The Death Penalty Is Inadmissible, No Matter How Serious the Crime”

From Vatican City this morning, a report of Pope Francis' meeting with delegates from the...

March 18, 2015

“The Poor You Will Always Have With You”: An Atheist Misunderstands Pope Francis, Again

Matthew O'Neil, writing on Dan Arel's Danthropology blog over on the Atheist Channel, has written what he...

March 13, 2015

Pope Thinks He Won’t Live Long…. Oh, And By the Way, He Misses Pizza.

It's stuff like this that makes Pope Francis the darling of the world media: In...

March 11, 2015

Pope Francis on a Possible Assassination Attempt: “I’m a Wimp When It Comes to Pain!”

If terrorists make good on their threat to attack Pope Francis, the pontiff says he...

March 01, 2015

Leaning Tower of Pizza? Romans Get a Laugh at ISIS’ Expense

Radicals from the Islamic State (ISIS) have threatened to overthrow Rome and toss homosexuals from...

February 2015

February 26, 2015

Willy Herteller, Homeless Man, Laid to Rest in Vatican Gardens

Willy Herteller is home at last. Willy, a homeless man who had migrated from Belgium...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

Vatican Conference on Women: Plastic Surgery Is Like “A Burqa Made of Flesh”

Last month I told you about a controversial new video released by the Vatican's Pontifical...

January 26, 2015

Birds Didn’t Work Out, So the Vatican’s Trying Balloons

Each year on the last Sunday in January, it has been the custom for the...

January 15, 2015

Charlie Hebdo Rejects Support from Catholics

The French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, darling of the media since the unfortunate attack on...