Papal States

On criminal justice, renouncing power might actually make the papacy stronger

• Nov 3, 2024
• John L. Allen Jr.

Pope’s latest watershed for laity probably ought to come with a warning

• May 16, 2023
• John L. Allen Jr.

Ghost of the Papal States haunts Vatican’s ‘Trial of the Century’

• Jun 5, 2022
• John L. Allen Jr.

‘Trial of the Century’ points to long overdue reform in separation of powers

• May 1, 2022
• John L. Allen Jr.

Blaze damages Papal States-era bridge spanning Tiber River in Rome

• Oct 3, 2021
• Associated Press

Inside the secret conversion of Italy’s Christopher Hitchens

• May 14, 2021
• John L. Allen Jr.

Papal vaccine campaigns offered punishments, rewards 200 years ago

• May 9, 2021
• Cindy Wooden

Apart but together: Church shows creativity ministering during pandemics

• May 25, 2020
• Carol Glatz

Rome has vocation of dialogue and inclusion, pope says

• Feb 4, 2020
• Cindy Wooden

Maverick image aside, sometimes Pope’s more evolution than revolution

• Oct 17, 2017
• John L. Allen Jr.