ROME – At year’s end, it’s standard journalistic practice to look back at the most important stories of the past 12 months. Since plenty of people already do that on the Vatican beat, I decided a long time ago to go another direction by offering a list of the most under-covered Vatican stories of the year.
By that, I mean stories which were important, but which, for one reason or another, didn’t generate a lot of buzz, either in the mainstream media or the specialized Catholic press. It’s not that they weren’t covered at all, simply that the volume of coverage wasn’t proportionate to the inherent merits of the story.
