Rome is host to many international styles of cuisine as well as to all the forms of Italian cooking. In recent years one of the types of food which has increased in popularity is Peruvian. So this time we are taking you to Inka’s Grill, founded in 2006, and located in the Boccea area of Rome, [...]
On February 11, a drowsy winter day, Annibale Gammarelli was working in his tailor’s workshop located in the building of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, close to the Pantheon and the Basilica of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. At about midday a friend of his called him and told him excitedly: “Benedict XVI has resigned!” Annibale could not [...]
We met Cardinal Raymundo Damasceno Assis, one of the three Brazilian cardinals who entered the conclave. Archbishop of Aparecida and president of the Brazilian Episcopal Conference, he told Inside the Vatican about the Conclave and talks about the Latin American Church, which is living a phase of missionary revival after the fifth Conference of CELAM (the [...]
Incredible though it may sound, until the new Pope is elected, the main characters of the conclave are two stoves; it is up to them to announce to the world that the Pope has been elected or that he is yet to be elected, with a white or black puff of smoke respectively. In fact, in [...]
“Francis has already given us a great deal of joy, and I’m sure he will give us more with words and above all with gestures inspired by evangelical simplicity which everybody has understood and which will usher in a new era in the life of the Church.” Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes of the Friars Minor is [...]
Cardinal Telesphore Placidus Toppo,Archbishop of Ranchi (India) On Tuesday morning, March 12, at 10 a.m., a Mass pro eligendo Romano Pontifice is celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica. This is the last act of the cardinals’ General Congregations (pre-conclave meetings) and the first act of the Conclave which opens this afternoon. The Dean of Cardinals, [...]
Here is the complete text, delivered without notes, of Pope Francis’ first homily given on March 14, in the Sistine Chapel where he had been elected Pope the day before. In these three readings, I see that there is something in common: it is movement. Pope Francis In the first reading, movement in walking; [...]
Pope Francis greets the faithful after a pause in front of a statue of Mary and Jesus as he arrives to celebrate his inaugural Mass in St. Peter's Square March 19 (Galazka photo) “The correct term for the ceremony,” Fr. Lombardi clarified, “is not enthronement but inauguration. As successor of Peter, the Pope is [...]
Pope Francis, on the first day after his election, did four remarkable things — and did not do a fifth. Pope Francis prays in front of Salus Populi Romani, (“Salvation of the Roman People”),a Marian icon in a chapel of the Basilica of St. Mary Major in Rome, March 14 (CNS photo) [...]
From left, German Cardinal Walter Kasper, president emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; Cardinal Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising (Germany); Cardinal Severino Poletto, Archbishop emeritus of Turin (Italy). With the beginning of the sede vacante, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals, summoned the cardinals to the [...]