Profiles, interviews and analysis of Vatican insiders, and the people who the Vatican is talking about.
Ten Who Shine Catholics who showed us the good and beautiful in 2022 In this issue, we spotlight ten Catholic individuals who “made a difference” in 2022 –– and beyond. Five of them are members of the Catholic clergy, men whose ordination has deepened and broadened a life-long desire to serve Christ and their fellow [...]
Ten Who Shine Catholics who showed us the good and beautiful in 2022 In this issue, we spotlight ten Catholic individuals who “made a difference” in 2022 –– and beyond. Five of them are members of the Catholic clergy, men whose ordination has deepened and broadened a life-long desire to serve Christ and their fellow [...]
Ten Who Shine Catholics who showed us the good and beautiful in 2022 In this issue, we spotlight ten Catholic individuals who “made a difference” in 2022 –– and beyond. Five of them are members of the Catholic clergy, men whose ordination has deepened and broadened a life-long desire to serve Christ and their fellow [...]
By Matthew Trojacek with G. Galazka, CNA and CNS photos ONE MILLION FILIPINO CHILDREN PRAY THE ROSARY FOR WORLD PEACE Over 1 million children in the Philippines prayed the rosary together for world peace and unity at an event organized by an international foundation founded by Dutch priest Werenfried van Straaten. The annual program was held [...]
A distinguished professor for six decades, he wrote a valuable history of Vatican II By Jesuit Province East/ITV staff Rev. O’Malley joined the Theology Department of Georgetown in 2006. He passed away on September 11 at the age of 95 Rev. John W. O’Malley, SJ, was the only child of Charles and Elizabeth Gallagher [...]
By Javier Arias (InfoVaticana) German Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, gave an interview in September to the Spanish-language website InfoVaticana. In the interview, published on September 23, the cardinal addressed in frank language questions on the recent consistory of cardinals held in Rome at the end [...]
ABDUCTED NUN FREED AFTER FIVE MONTHS IN BURKINA FASO Marianite Sister Suellen Tennyson, who was kidnapped from the convent of her educational and medical mission in Yalgo, Burkina Faso, in early April, has been found alive and is safe after nearly five months of captivity, a congregational leader of the Marianites said August 30. “She is [...]
Remembering Gary Cooper: actor, family man, catholic convert By Barbara Middleton* for Inside the Vatican Here, Pope Pius XII greets Gary Cooper, his daughter Maria (next to him) and wife Veronica (far left) during a June 26, 1953 visit to the Vatican while the Coopers were on a European publicity tour for the movie High [...]
The head of the imperial house of Brazil, a faithful Catholic, died on July 14 at age 84 By Vik van Brantegem Dom Luiz d’Orleans-Bragança: "We base our hopes on the promises of Our Lady" He died in São Paulo, Brazil on July 14, 2022, after being hospitalized for a month: S.A.I.R. Prince Dom Luiz Gastão [...]
Fr. Titus Brandsma, outspoken critic of Nazism, was killed by a lethal injection—and he converted the nurse who administered it By Andrew Rabel Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite, journalist and manager of the Catholic press at the time of the Nazi occupation, canonized at St. Peter's during the ceremony on May 15, presided over by [...]
