Vatican Archives

Pro-life group welcomes court ruling to let U.S. doctor examine Gard baby
- Catholic News Service, Global Church
- July 19, 2017
Pro-life activists celebrated the decision by a London court to allow a U.S. neuorologist to go to the U.K. in order to visit Charlie Gard, an 11-month-old baby suffering from a rare degenerative disease, whose parents’ battle in order to provide him with a possible cure and keep him on life support has been at the center of a heated debate.
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Pope Francis appoints Italian Biblicist as deputy of doctrinal congregation
- Vatican
- July 18, 2017
Monsignor Giacomo Morandi, 51, is the new second in command at the Pontifical Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Pope Francis appointed the Italian Biblicist with ties to the Gregorian University in Rome after the former deputy of the congregation, Archbishop Luis Ladaria Ferrer, was made prefect of the congregation.
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Agree or not, it’s good to know what Vatican insiders think of America
- Analysis
- July 16, 2017
An article by two friends of Pope Francis arguing that a ‘Manichean vision’ underlies ‘a surprising ecumenism … between Evangelical fundamentalists and Catholic Integralists’ in the United States may be debatable, but it illustrates a time-honored Vatican take on America that neither this pope nor his advisers invented. (As a footnote, we might want to slow down before blaming the US bishops.)
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Vatican, al-Azhar focus on papal trip speeches in latest meeting

Pope Francis’s strong words against the use of violence in the name of religion during his visit to Cairo in late April, echoed throughout the latest meeting between the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the al-Azhar Center for Dialogue.

Church officials upset that Myanmar won’t allow UN fact-finders

Myanmar’s government has refused to allow members of a U.N. fact-finding mission to enter the country in order to investigate human rights abuses against the Rohingya minority. Vatican officials have spoken out against the country’s decision to put international politics first and human rights later.

Fresh from consistory, new cardinals greet family, friends

After receiving the scarlet frock by Pope Francis June 28, the five new cardinals greeted friends and family beaming with pride. Cardinal Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, the first from Laos, said that his red clothes which represent a willingness to suffer for the faith, assumed a new meaning: “red also means love,” he said.