Dossiers, Reflections and penetrating analysis by Inside The Vatican’s editors
This Lent and Easter in Rome are the most silent in all the history of the Church. Rome is on total lockdown. The fears of the coronavirus have led to the shutdown of the country. A special report “Teacher,” they asked, “when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about [...]
By John Byron Kuhner The Church of San Rocco, with a hospital attached, right by the Mausoleum of Augustus. On the right side of its facade is the inscription discussed in this essay I think the defining characteristic of these past few months, when coronavirus debuted on the world stage, has been uncertainty. We’ve [...]
“This Day You Will Be With Me in Paradise” The “Second Word” of Christ on the Cross Was Spoken to the Good Thief, After He Asked, “Remember Me, O Lord, When You Come Into Your Kingdom” And there were also two other malefactors led with him to be put to death. And when they were come [...]
Can We Return To a Truly Catholic Economics — Not One Identified with Any Political Cultural Bloc? By Thomas Storck The Giving of the Mantle by Giotto, Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. Thomas Storck, author of four books and many articles on Catholic economics From March 26 to 28 of this [...]
Pope Francis Hosts a Global Economic Conference To Rethink the World's Economy By Christina Deardurff “The Economy of Francesco,” a conference “hosted by” Pope Francis, will take place March 26-28 in the town of Il Poverello (“The Poor Man”), St. Francis of Assisi.The title of the conference, therefore, is a reference to both: to the saint [...]
When Jesus told his disciples he was going up to Jerusalem, they were excited, thinking he would announce the coming of his earthly kingdom. Then he went to the Temple, and cast out the merchants and thieves Jesus’ messianic entrance into Jerusalem (559) Although Jesus had always refused popular attempts to make him king, he chooses [...]
Cautions about the Narrative of the Causes of Economic Injustice. By Samuel Gregg, Ph. D.* From the beginning of his pontificate, Jorge Bergoglio has put questions of economic justice front and center of his speeches, interviews, and magisterial teaching. Since Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, economic questions have assumed a prominent place in the concerns [...]
By Roberto de Mattei In the front, wearing glasses, Italian historian Dr. Roberto de Mattei, chief organizer of the prayer and protest. In the back on the left, just visible behind the man in the light-colored jacket and white cap is a bearded Archbishop Viganò wearing a dark hat. The archbishop told ITV he felt [...]
By John-Henry Westen Your Eminence, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, with respect and love for your office as a bishop and cardinal, as a pastor called to feed the flock of Christ, it is with great sorrow that I must now speak very strongly to you. I do this as a father of young children, as a member [...]
By José Antonio Ureta The “synodal path” undertaken by the German Bishops’Conference departs radically from the traditional synod model, and if not stopped in time, will lead to a schism. Indeed, the said “synodal path” is based on five impostures: Theological Imposture The goals of a regular diocesan synod being purely pastoral and disciplinary, questions of [...]
