Cover image: December 2013 cover of The Advocate featuring Pope Francis as the magazine's Person of the Year
News Analysis
ByCharles Collins, special to the Catholic Herald
There’s an old maxim: Never try and bluff an armed person with an unloaded gun.
That was my first thought when it was revealed the Vatican had officially protested a proposed “anti-homophobia” law currently facing the Italian Senate.
The Italian daily Corriere della Sera reported on Tuesday that Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, had delivered an official diplomatic communication claiming the proposed law, sponsored by legislator Alessandro Zan, would violate the Lateran Pacts between the Holy See and the state of Italy.
