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John L Allen
Right-wing shift in European elections could both hinder and help Pope’s agenda
less than a week after pope francis called on people to recognise migrants as “a living image of god’s people on their way to the eternal ho...
Pope uses 'crude' Italian slang to criticise gay culture in seminaries
the vatican’s pr machine has swung into action following reports that the pope used a crude slang term in reference to the prevalence of hom...
A busy week in Rome: World Children's Day, China, Palestine and a distinct lack of taxis
rome – sometimes a week on the vatican beat doesn’t offer up one grand narrative, but instead supplies a series of vignettes illustrating th...
Israel objects to Catholic 'moral blindness' to Hamas terror
rome – just as israel continues to deploy its military “hard power” on the gaza strip, defying international pressure to back down, so too i...
Vatican weighs up potential Trump return in its approach to European elections
rome – although non-europeans may not be paying attention – and, for that matter, a fairly wide swath of the european population itself isn’...
Catholic imprint on six ‘swing states’ may shape the global future
rome – were you to ask veteran vatican-watchers to name the six most important prelates in the catholic church today beyond the pope himself...
Popes take risks to appear in public
rome – amid the usual cascade of news out of the vatican in recent days was a curious item, which, among other things, touches upon the ever...
Pope’s ‘foreign policy’ Easter message: What got included, what got left out
rome – a pope’s easter sunday urbi et orbi blessing, meaning “to the city and the world,” is generally understood to be one of h...
Father Pietro Pappagallo: The priest who died a martyr in Italy 80 years ago to this day
rome – exactly 80 years ago today, on march 24, 1944, the nazi occupiers of rome shot 335 italians to death, mostly civilians, in a series o...
‘For Love of My People, I Will Not Stay Silent’: Italian priest whose ‘martyrdom’ inspired locals to speak out against organised crime
rome – thirty years ago today, a young italian priest was gunned down by a mafia hitman as he was preparing to say mass, thereby giving his ...
Worldwide papal travel is here to stay, whether Demos II likes it or not
rome – on the evening of april 19, 2005, just hours after his election, the man who had just become benedict xvi confided to alberto gasbarr...
How Pope's blessings for same-sex couples undermine peace efforts in Ukraine
rome – as the world marked the second anniversary of russia’s invasion of ukraine yesterday, the failure to date of all diplomatic efforts, ...
Reaction to Fiducia in US has revealed ‘enduring animus’ to ‘LGBT persons’, says key Pope ally
anaheim – one of pope francis’s most vocal allies in the church hierarchy in the united states has criticised the reaction among some cathol...
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