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The Vatican on December 18 published a text, Fiducia supplicans (link) which may go down as the most controversial and most ecumenically damaging document of Pope Francis' pontificate. At some point it will be necessary for the good of the entire Christian world, to explain more fully the genesis and drafting of this text, but [...]
Italian historian Alberto Melloni. He has written a book on the history of papal conclaves (link). Now he is calling on Pope Francis to change the rules of the next papal conclave... in order to avoid a possible division among the cardinals, and a division in the Church after the conclave... Melloni teaches History of [...]
Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev of Budapest, Hungary. He just gave an interview in which he expressed grave concern regarding the Vatican document on blessing, published December 18, Fiducia supplicans. The full text of the interview is below Letter #5, 2024, Monday, March 4: Hilarion in Blessings Below is an interview given a few days [...]
In the March-April 2024 issue of Inside the Vatican, our Lead story covers the Pope's condemnation of surrogacy, IVF and all technologies that reduce human beings to commodities; we follow African Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo's extraordinary trip to Rome to register African rejection of Fiducia Supplicans; Benedict XVI biographer Peter Seewald talks about the late Pope's "heartbreak"; [...]
The text below is a "pre-conclave" text — a text that seeks to begin the process of electing the next Pope. It is also anonymous. The text is a brief letter which raises a number of concerns about the pontificate of Pope Francis (2013-present). It claims to be written by a member of the College [...]
Professor Nina Sophie Heereman. Heereman has just published an important analysis of the issues involved in the December 18 Vatican document on ecclesial blessings Fiducia supplicans ("Supplicating trust"). Born and raised in Germany, Heereman is a scripture scholar who studied or did research and lecturing in India, Switzerland, France, Rome and Jerusalem. She is currently [...]
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In the January-February 2024 issue of Inside the Vatican, we follow from beginning to end the Vatican "Trial of the Century" which convicted curial Cardinal Angelo Becciu and eight others after 30 months and 600 courtroom hours; we profile our annual Top Ten personalities of 2023 — Shining Lights in an Often-dark Sky; American Cardinal James [...]
