Argentina, Rome mark anniversary of cardinal who influenced Pope Francis
- Dec 3, 2020
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Vatican closes museums, tightens rules for new religious orders
- Nov 4, 2020
On Wednesday the Vatican ordered the closure of its own museums as part of a new, broader national lockdown in Italy, and also required local bishops to seek Rome’s approval before creating new religious orders.
Pope’s new crop of cardinals let their colors show
- Nov 2, 2020
Several of Pope Francis’s 13 new cardinals-to-be have spoken out about the decision to give them a red hat, voicing surprise at the choice and offering a glimpse of issues that hit close to home and hints at what their priorities might be.
Celebrating the anonymous change-makers in the Church
- Aug 30, 2020
There’s something fitting about it having been a Catholic priest who coined the famous phrase about being able to accomplish great things as long as you don’t want the credit, because of all environments on earth where that’s true, the Vatican merits a special pride of place.
Pius X a reminder that Vatican reform isn’t a political animal
- Aug 23, 2020
Why would Pope Francis’s Vatican go out of its way to praise the great anti-modernist pope, Pius X? Maybe because he was also a great reformer.
For baseball’s Opening Day, a Vatican fantasy draft
- Jul 22, 2020
Baseball is not my only passion. I’m also a member of the Vaticanologist guild, which beckoned the thought: What if there were a fantasy draft for the Vatican?
Pope offers promotion to two key curial allies
- May 1, 2020
On Friday, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis has promoted Italian Cardinal Benjamin Stella and Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle to cardinal-bishops, the highest category a prelate can belong to apart from being the pope himself.
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