Articles from Inside The Vatican Magazine.
By Matthew Trojacek with CNA Reports - Grzegorz Galazka and CNA photos April Thursday 11 Pope decries how “the unborn with disabilities are aborted” Pope Francis decried how “the unborn with disabilities are aborted” in a speech on April 11 to a Vatican conference on disability inclusion. The Pope warned that “the throwaway culture” turns into [...]
What the Church must bring to today's life-and-death debates, as the basic criteria for an ethical evaluation are being lost... By ITV staff German Fr. Ralph Weimann is a theologian and author of several books including Sacramentals: Their Meaning and Spiritual Use and Guide for Truth-seeking Christians, with a preface by Cardinal Robert Sarah. He holds [...]
More than a century ago, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson foresaw the rise of secular humanism, the contraction of the Catholic Church, and the coming of the Antichrist By ITV Staff Editor’s Note: The passage below is from the Prologue to the novel Lord of the World, written by the English Catholic convert Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson [...]
Head of Chinese bishops, originally appointed without Vatican approval, Bishop Joseph Shen Bin of Shanghai promotes "Sinicization" while the still-unsigned agreement between the Vatican and China remains in play By ITV staff/Vatican News Cardinal Pietro Parolin with Bishop Joseph Shen Bin of Shanghai at a conference at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome on May [...]
By Lucy Gordan Introduction by ITV staff Here, Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli (who is blind), with the head of his Andrea Bocelli Foundation, Laura Biancalani, at the recent inauguration of the foundation’s new Maria Manetti Shrem Educational Center in Florence, Italy. Photos courtesy of The Andrea Bocelli Foundation. Photo credit: Giacomo Moresi, 2024. For [...]
Could it be a time to reclaim their call to authentic beauty? By Aurelio Pofiri * As we all know, in 2025 there will be a Jubilee in Rome, and I — who live in Rome — am able to truly experience how the city is preparing for this significant religious event, with the hope of [...]
"The Bishop of Rome" brings synodality, ecumenism — and controversy — to a fresh look at the Pope's role By Zenit/ITV staff On Thursday, June 13, a new document was presented by the Dicastery for Christian Unity on the role of the Bishop of Rome (the Pope). The “study document” The Bishop of Rome is the [...]
As John Paul II reminds us in his 1999 Letter to Artists — written as Fr. Rupnik was completing the Pope's private Redemptoris Mater Chapel — "in shaping a masterpiece, the artist not only summons his work into being, but also in some way reveals his own personality by means of it" By Christina Deardurff [...]
By ITV staff “Watching people from all over the world praying... it’s an experience of the universal Church. For me, it reinforces my faith,” Joan Lewis, author of A Holy Year in Rome: The Complete Pilgrim’s Guide for the Jubilee of Mercy, held in 2016, told Catholic News Agency in a 2023 interview. The Jubilee Year [...]
New document on marriage offers "compassionate pastoral recommendations," says Cardinal Tobin By Catholic World News/ITV staff Cardinal Joseph Tobin, 71, Archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, since 2017 The North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation — co-chaired by Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark and Metropolitan Methodios of Boston — announced on March 6 the publication [...]
