An interview with Greg Burke, former Fox News correspondent, named communications advisor to the Vatican secretariat of state Greg Burke of Fox News is pictured among journalists on a papal flight to Croatia on June 4, 2011. Burke has been hired as a senior communications advisor to the Vatican’s secretariat of state (CNS photo). [...]
Several weeks ago, a group of Pontifical Swiss Guards left for Emilia in central Italy, which was devastated by a powerful earthquake. They volunteered to help the bishop of Carpi, Monsignor Francesco Cavina. Anna Artymiak met up with Monsignor Cavina to talk about these things. How did the Swiss Guard conceive the project of helping [...]
An interview with Gabriele Paris, a new recruit, who went with his companions to the Emilia Romagna region, Italy, to provide security at the damaged Carpi hospital Some Swiss Guards on the streets of Carpi. Gabriele Paris: Our superior said they needed volunteers. He asked my squad, the second, if anyone was willing to [...]
Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore speaks to journalists at the Foreign Press Club in Rome on June 28. He received the pallium from the Pope the next day in sign of his leadership of the Baltimore archdiocese, where he succeeds Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, who has been made a cardinal and the head of the Knights [...]
On the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, 44 archbishops received the wool pallium from Pope Benedict during a ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica View photo essay in our photo viewer. The bronze statue of St. Peter is clothed with an amice, alb, tiara, stole, red cape and a ring. (Grzegorz Galazka photo) [...]
Nemi, Italy, Monday, July 9, 2012 The welcome banner for the Pope’s visit to Nemi, Italy JULY 9 VISIT TO THE AD GENTES HOUSE OF THE DIVINE WORD MISSIONARIES I am truly grateful for the possibility of seeing this house in Nemi once again after 47 years. I have a very beautiful memory of it, [...]
In July, Benedict XVI visited the Society of the Divine Word’s house in Nemi, not far from his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. In 1965, Ratzinger, then in his 30s, stayed in the house to work on documents for the Second Vatican Council Benedict XVI during a visit to the Society of the Divine Word’s [...]
Pope Benedict has chosen a native New Yorker, the secretary to the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, to play an important new role... In a bid to keep talks with the Society of St. Pius X on course to a possible reconciliation, Pope Benedict XVI recently appointed American Archbishop J. Augustine [...]
During a conference at the Holy See’s press office on July 18, Msgr. Ettore Balestrero presented the document of the first Mutual Evaluation Report on Vatican City State As the Vatican continues working to comply with international standards against money laundering and financing terrorism, it still needs to beef up internal inspection and supervisory powers, said [...]
Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller, new prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Some say he is too “progressive,” while others claim he is too “conservative.” Bottom line: the Pope trusts him He is a big man, more than 6 feet tall (he towers over Pope Benedict XVI). His physical bulk is [...]