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John L Allen
Papabile of the day: Cardinal Ambongo offers blend of tradition and reform
when pope francis gave the green light for the dicastery for the doctrine of the faith to issue its controversial 2024 declaration fiducia s...
‘Papabile’ of the Day: Cardinal Péter Erdő
it is a matter of historical record that, years before the conclave of 2005 which elected cardinal joseph ratzinger as pope benedict xvi, a ...
Papabile of the day: Cardinal Zuppi
rome – fundamentally, every conclave shapes up as a referendum on the papacy that just ended: do we want to keep going in the same direction...
‘Papabile’ of the Day: Cardinal Parolin
each day in the run up to the conclave to elect a successor to pope francis – the date for which has yet to be set – we will run a profile o...
Creating Francis: the laboratory of Buenos Aires
when pope francis was elected to the throne of peter on 13 march 2013, he was largely unknown to the wider world. even many of his fellow ar...
Cardinal Becciu alleges new evidence proves misconduct in Vatican ‘trial of the century’
rome – the vatican’s “trial of the century”, which ended in december 2023 with guilty verdicts against italian cardinal angelo becciu and ei...
Crisis in Jewish-Catholic relations continues at Vatican with six flashpoints in ten days
recently i declared that a mounting crisis in jewish-catholic relations was the most under-covered vatican story of 2024. early indications ...
2024 in review: Vatican controversies missed by the mainstream press
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 ...
What are we to make of Trump's choice of a 'pope critic' as ambassador to the Holy See?
rome – famously, von clausewitz defined war as “the continuation of politics by other means”. to hear some people tell it, president-elect d...
Who comes next? It's not inappropriate to speculate on Pope Francis's successor
rome – whenever popes begin to age or fall sick, two developments are as inevitable as the rising and the setting of the sun. first, some pe...
US bishops aren't just 'anti-Trump' - it's more nuanced when it comes to immigration
rome – shortly after donald trump was elected anew to the presidency in part due to strong support from catholics, the u.s. bishops put the ...
Synod displayed Catholicism's uncanny ability to frustrate just about everyone
from the beginning, one of the most persistent charges against pope francis’s synod of bishops on synodality, which got underway in 2021 and...
Father of liberation theology and former nemesis of Vatican dies at 96
in february 2014, a scene unfolded in rome that struck many observers as akin to the end of history. a conservative german prefect of the co...
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