Articles from Inside The Vatican Magazine.
By Lucy Gordan The Palazzo Colonna with its impressive entrance courtyard and (below) magnificent gardens at its back. I’ve lived in Rome for more than 50 years and had never heard of, much less visited, Palazzo Colonna, until last November when the Culture Group of the Foreign Press Association was invited on a tour [...]
Part one of the "Profiling the Good Thief" series By Marcellus Allen Roberts * "By God's grace, the thief on Christ's right offers the last of his wretched life in exchange for a passport to Paradise and Jesus accepts the offer. Today, he is venerated in the Church as St. Dismas, or by the paradoxical [...]
By Matthew Trojacek Ukrainian Orthodox Priest and Father of Five Taken by Military Recruiters Another priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church was detained by military recruitment officials on November 18. Father Konstantin Volovy, a clergyman of the Cherkasy Diocese, was taken to the Smila territorial recruitment center despite having grounds for deferment from military service. Family [...]
By Peter Anderson Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew gifts a cross to Pope Leo during his November 30-December 2 trip to Constantinople and Lebanon. (photo:Vatican Media) On October 22, 2025, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew presided at Vespers at the Church of St. George in Neochori (Yeniköy), near Istanbul. St. George is the Jerusalem Patriarchate’s embassy church (or [...]
The Holy Father visited Christian-minority Turkey, site of the COuncil of Nicaea 1700 years ago, and Lebanon, where he became the first Pope to pray at the tomb of St. Charbel By Robert Moynihan and Anna Artymiak Iznik, Turkey, November 28, 2025, Ecumenical Prayer Meeting near the archaeological excavations of the ancient Basilica of [...]
Disciples of the Beatitudes The Sermon on the Mount by Carl Bloch, 1890 The year 2025 has been a harrowing one for many around the world. Violence on a grand scale has plagued many nations, and on a smaller scale, many communities, even schools and churches. Yet, we have just celebrated — and continue [...]
By Robert Wiesner Even though at least two ascetics preceded him into the desert wilds of North Africa (Paul of Thebes and Mark of Athens), Anthony is yet widely considered the Father of Monasticism. Neither Mark nor Paul had monks in obedience following them. Anthony, on the other hand, became the abbot of a large [...]
By Mother Martha Pizza, specifically the art of the Neapolitan pizzaiulo or pizza chef, was inscribed on UNESCO’s List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in December 2017. This year four new titles about pizza appeared on bookstores’ shelves or to order on the internet. They all recount the owner pizzaiuoli and their restaurants’ stories; each volume contains [...]
Thomas Aquinas College finds the honor gratifying but "ironic" We are in the midst of a general crisis in higher education – an intellectual and spiritual crisis that is creating a generation of muddle-headed, unbelieving young people. One need only glance at the militant abortion apologists, the LGBT activists and the Antifa defenders — not to [...]
By Matthew Trojacek with Grzegorz Galazka Photos Authoress Gives Pope Leo Copy of New Book on Castel Gandolfo Italian Maura Mauro, a secretary by profession, gave Pope Leo a copy of her new book, Castel Gandolfo: Summer Residence of the Popes Over the Centuries on August 15 at the town on Lake Albano where Leo now [...]
