Articles from Inside The Vatican Magazine.
By juan Maria Laboa. The Historical Atlas of Charity by Juan María Laboa is a co-publication of Libreria Editrice Vaticana (the Vatican Press) and Jaca Book, in large-format with full-color illustrations that reproduce 20 centuries of Christian art and photographs documenting concrete examples of charity promoted by the Church in her efforts to help [...]
“The most accomplished and excellent painter of the whole Christian world” (Diary of Rombout the Doppere, 1494) The Last Judgement, Memling's masterpiece still waiting to go to Italy. Hans Memling, the leading painter of portraits, diptychs for personal devotion, and several large religious works in Bruges, Belgium, during the last quarter of the 15th [...]
We continue the special section we launched last month, with essays and historical material about the eastern or Byzantine tradition of Christianity. The goal: that the Church “breathe with two lungs.” The focus in this issue: liturgy and prayer. Groans Beyond All Utterance - By Robert Moynihan St Paul the Hermit fed by the Raven, oil [...]
On October 2, 2014, at an international conference organized by the Guglielmo Marconi University in Rome, scholars from around the world gathered to further explore the pontificate of Pope Pius XII. Entitled “Pius XII and the Second World War: Events, News, and Hypotheses from the Archives,” the conference was convened in anticipation of the opening of the Vatican [...]
Pope Francis’ remarkable address to the Synod Fathers at the conclusion of the Extraordinary Synod on the Family: something for everyone... Dear Eminences, Beatitudes, Excellencies, Brothers and Sisters, With a heart full of appreciation and gratitude I want to thank, along with you, the Lord who has accompanied and guided us in the past days, with [...]
Here is the final text of the Synod on the Family (October 5-19). At the end of the text are the votes on each paragraph. The three most controversial paragraphs were #52, #53, and #55. “Relatio Synodi” of the III Extraordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops: “Pastoral Challenges to the Family in the Context [...]
I met with Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz the evening of Saturday, October 18th. A few hours prior to our meeting, he had been at the Vatican, in the Synod auditorium, where he had participated in voting for the definitive version of the Synod document. He was visibly content: after the media storm, some people’s attempts to manipulate [...]
Cardinal Coccopalmerio. Interview with Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts, on his appraisal of the Synod. It’s Monday afternoon, October 21st. The first of the two Synods on the family finished yesterday, and a few hours ago the Consistory requested by the Pope on Middle Eastern Christians also came [...]
Metropolitan Hilarion walking to the Synod (far left), Father Hyacinthe Destivelle, OP, the Vatican official in charge of the dialogue with the Russian Orthodox, and, in the middle background, Hilarion's aide, Rev. Alexy Dikarev. The “foreign minister” of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Hilarion of Moscow, addressed the Synod on October 16, calling for [...]
Cardinal Burke is pictured in the chapel of his residence at the Vatican on June 6. One of the “protagonists” of the Synod was an American cardinal who gave several interviews which circled the globe. He came to be depicted as one of the key voices of the “conservatives” . The world likes Cardinal [...]