Articles from Inside The Vatican Magazine.
The school's President, Brian Black, tells the story of a school which combines much-needed technical training with Catholic spirituality. By Brian Black* Harmel Academy, hosted on the beautiful campus of Kuyper College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Harmel students live in dedicated dormitory floors, and receive instruction in dedicated classrooms and labs Several years [...]
This ordinary young Italian was filled with the love of God. He will be beatified on October 10. By Meg Hunter-Kilmer Carlo Acutis, who died unexpectedly at age 15 in 2006. He hiked, played soccer, went to daily Mass and was filled with the love of God. He will be beatified in Assisi, where [...]
A book publishing conversations between Pope Francis and Carlo Petrini, the founder of the Slow Food organization, highlights the Pope’s emphasis on dialogue with others. Petrini, 71, is a well-known Italian gastronomist, agnostic, and ex-Communist who started Slow Food in 1989 to safeguard local food culture. It is in this context that the author introduces [...]
A new arrangement makes it easier – and more understandable By Rev. Thomas K. Murphy, OFM* In the illustration, King David, to whom tradition attributes the authorship of the Psalms In 1969, after a three-and-a-half year stint as a U.S. Army chaplain, I studied pastoral counseling while assigned part-time to St. Anne Church [...]
By Robert Moynihan A year ago, I went in search of the “archbishop in hiding,” Carlo Maria Viganò. I found him, and we spoke over many days. A book based on our conversations went to press on the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel. September 29, Feast of St. Michael the Archangel A year ago, [...]
The Church's social teachings suggest a "Just Third Way" — an economic system that respects the dignity of the person By Michael D. Greaney Pope Gregory XVI (1831-1846) during a Corpus Christi procession along the colonnade of St. Peter’s Square. Left, Félicité de Lamennais, considered by some as founder of liberal Catholicism. Following [...]
By Becky Derks with G. Galazka, CNA and CNS photos Cardinal: Pandemic may have accelerated secularization of Europe by 10 years In an interview with L’Osservatore Romano September 2, Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg said he believed the number of Catholics going to church would decrease as a result of COVID-19. Asked whether he thought [...]
Veteran researcher says vaccines, as currently formulated, are often a response to fear, and not the way to true health - Part 2 By Stefanie Stark, special correspondent to Inside the Vatican “I am Catholic, but my opposition to the use of fresh material from the bodies of aborted babies is not just a catholic perspective [...]
Decades of Political Support for Abortion Began With This Sophisticated Propaganda Campaign By Terry T. Beatley with Clare Ruff At a prayer vigil in November 2009, I discerned the Lord asking me to interview Dr. Bernard Nathanson, the last surviving co-founder of NARAL — the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (later [...]
Stark Choices Lie Before Us. No Matter the Outcome, the Penultimate Struggle Has Already Been Won by Christ By Robert Royal “Put not your trust in princes.” We quote it all the time. And as a general rule about not expecting much from politicians or public authorities—whether they have to appeal to voters to retain [...]
