Vatican Radio Archives

Lourdes shrine closes healing pools as precaution against coronavirus

Mar 2, 2020

As the number of people testing positive for the coronavirus in Europe continued to grow, the French Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes announced that pilgrims were still welcome, but the pools the sick bathe in hoping for healing would be closed temporarily.

By Cindy Wooden

Vatican Radio was ‘positively aggressive’ in countering Nazi ‘fake news’ efforts, new book says

Feb 17, 2020

Nathan Morley’s ‘Radio Hitler: Nazi Airwaves in the Second World War’ – due to be published by Amberley in August – uses first-hand interviews, archives, diaries, letters and memoirs to examine Hitler’s radio and how it used ‘fake news’ to spread Nazi propaganda.

By Charles Collins

Vatican News to launch news program, podcast in Latin

Jun 6, 2019

A weekly news program about the pope and the Vatican will now be offered in Latin, the official language of the Holy See.

By Carol Glatz

How to know if reform in the Vatican Press Office is real

Jan 12, 2019

Simply shuffling personnel in and out of the Vatican Press Office doesn’t herald real reform in how the Vatican engages the media.

By John L. Allen Jr.

Global outcry saves Latin news show broadcast from Finland

Dec 29, 2017

By broadcasting radio news in Latin, “Finland has done something that had earlier been experimented with only in the Vatican in the 1930s,” wrote Latin professors Christian Laes from the University of Antwerp and Dirk Sacre from the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium in an op-ed article published recently in Finland’s leading daily, Helsingin Sanomat.

By Jari Tanner

For new Catholic radio in Kenya, ‘evangelization’ covers a lot of ground

Dec 7, 2017

A new Catholic radio station in Mombasa, Kenya, often a hot-spot for Muslim/Christian conflict, has an expansive understanding of “evangelization.” Its audacious aim is nothing less than changing the world, or at least their piece of it.

By John L. Allen Jr.