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John L Allen
Italy and the Catholic Church still riven by pernicious politics of memory
rome – italy’s february 10 “day of remembrance” is worth giving more consideration to than might seem immediately obvious to the non-italian...
Pope of surprises: but will latest Vatican developments placate papal critics?
rome – fans of the epic british period drama “downton abbey” will recall that in the series finale, at one point gladys denker, maid to the ...
Cardinal Ambongo: emerging papal candidate due to Fiducia Supplicans
rome – there is a story that during british rule of india, colonial officials became concerned about poisonous cobras in the city of delhi a...
Is the Pope after an ‘Assisi on the Tiber’ to promote his spiritual vision
mikhail gorbachev once declared that while he remained an atheist, he had to admit that soviet communism had never produced anyone quite lik...
Dutch cardinal could get papal successor boost after response to ‘Fiducia Supplicans’
rome – this week voters in the new hampshire primary will head to the polls, taking part in what has long been the premier proving ground in...
Musings from Mongolia: Christmas in Ulaanbaatar with Cardinal Marengo's small but growing flock
rome – religion, like politics, is basically local. faith isn’t forged in the hqs of spiritual bureaucracies and their political battles, ho...
Mixed reactions to Vatican 'Trial of the Century': will anyone actually go to jail?
rome – after a staggering total of 30 months, 85 hearings stretching over some 600 courtroom hours, 69 witnesses and almost 150,000 pages of...
Becciu guilty: sentenced to five-and-a-half-years imprisonment by Vatican court
rome – in the long-awaited denouement of the vatican’s “trial of the century,” which has been seen widely as a litmus test of pope francis’s...
Changing the conclave? Whatever happens next is likely also to have happened before
rome – despite two separate denials of mounting intensity, speculation continues to make the rounds that pope francis has tasked a veteran i...
Who needs enemies? Pope's special nominee to Synod on Synodality facing trial in Sicily
rome – it has emerged that one of pope francis's special nominees to the synod on synodality, luca casarini, is under investigation in sicil...
Nostra Aetate revisited: do papal overtures to Muslims compromise the Church's relationship with Jews?
rome - when pope francis was elected in 2013, the forecast among those invested in jewish-catholic dialogue generally was rosy. the new pope...
Uncharted territory for Church as Francis's home country elects 'anti-Pope' president
denver – when you’re talking about the catholic church, you need to be awfully careful about using the word “unprecedented” to describe any ...
Roma locuta, causa finita est ... err, what was that the Pope said?
rome – by any measure one chooses to employ, the papacy is among the most visible offices on the face of the planet. on the social media pla...
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