Dossiers, Reflections and penetrating analysis by Inside The Vatican’s editors
"For you I am a bishop; with you I am a Christian" These words Pope Leo XIV spoke, quoting his spiritual father, St. Augustine, in his first address after his May 8 election. Over the weeks since, Pope Leo has followed a busy schedule of meetings, public appearances, liturgies and visits with public figures and [...]
“Dear brothers and sisters, Happy Easter!” —Pope Francis, on Easter Sunday, April 20, from the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica, to the crowds in St. Peter’s Square, and to the world, his last public words... By Dr. Robert Moynihan Monday, April 28, 2025, Rome — In Rome on the Vigil of Easter, Holy Saturday, I [...]
The eyes of the world turned toward Rome in February as Pope Francis was hospitalized, and diagnosed with pneumonia. Many began to assess his pontificate and think of his possible successor. We pray for his soul... By Dr. Robert Moynihan Friday, February 21, 2025 — The eyes of the world turned toward Rome in February [...]
“Hope calls us – as St. Augustine would say – to be upset with things that are wrong and to find the courage to change them.” —Pope Francis, Christmas Eve, December 24, 2024, Opening the Jubilee Year of Hope By Dr. Robert Moynihan Monday, December 30, 2024, Rome — In Rome on Christmas Eve, as [...]
The reflections of a Polish journalist who has been in Rome for 15 years, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XVI (d. December 31, 2022) By Anna Artymiak Archbishop Georg Gaenswein celebrates Holy Mass at the tomb of Pope Benedict XVI in the Vatican Grottoes on January 31, [...]
King David sang in Psalm 146: “Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save. When their spirit departs, they return to the ground; on that very day their plans come to nothing Thursday, November 7, 2024, Rome — I write this after midnight, early on November 7, just hours after [...]
St. Paul, writing to the Christians of Ephesus in the mid-1st century (Ephesians 6:12), said “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood... but against the rulers of the world of this darkness.” Today it is still so... Monday, August 19, 2024 — Sometimes, the voice of one man may be key to avert [...]
The Church continues her journey in time, as the work of the Holy Spirit continues in our once fallen, now redeemed world, a work which will end with the triumph of the Immaculate Hearts of Mary and Jesus... We are in the warmest months of summer now — July and August — and perhaps it [...]
And on the tragic loss of that dignity. A reflection on the Vatican document Dignitas infinita, issued in Rome on April 2, 2024 (19th anniversary of St. Pope John Paul II’s death), and presented to the press on April 8 in Rome Monday, April 22, 2024, Rome — Many years ago, in the summer of [...]
The 4th century theologian Tyconius may provide a key to the thinking of Pope Benedict XVI, and explain his decision to resign the papacy in 2013... By Robert Moynihan “For Tyconius, the city of the devil exists both outside the Church and inside the Church – not only among the pagans but also among impostor Christians.” [...]
