Interviews with important members of the Church and Vatican state.
Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo Defends The New Encyclical’s Views on Climate Change and The Vatican’s Collaboration With Controversial Secular Figures Bishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo Inside the Vatican Gardens, on a low hill on the inner side of the Museums, there stands a 16th-century building, the Casina Pio IV. In its spacious rooms can be [...]
An Interview With Bishop Mario Toso on The Encyclical Laudato Si’ The bishop at the table with us is a recognized expert on the Church’s social doctrine. From 2003 to 2009 he was Rector of the Pontifical Salesian University, and from then through January of 2015 he was Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and [...]
In September, Archbishop Chaput will host Pope Francis in the city of Philadelphia, where a world Meeting of Families will also be Occurring. How he is preparing... Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia at a Vatican press conference on September 16, 2014, pictured in front of the official image for the September 22-27, 2015 World Meeting [...]
An interview with Zion Evrony, Israeli ambassador to the Holy See for the past three years Pope Francis with Israel’s president, Shimon Perez, greets Zion Evrony, since 2012 Israel’s ambassador to the Holy See Zion Evrony was born in Iran in 1949 and immigrated to Israel a year later. He has held, among other [...]
An interview with Francis Rooney, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See under President George W. Bush The visit of President George W. Bush and his wife Laura to Pope Benedict XVI. Accompanying them was then Archbishop, now Cardinal James Harvey, whom Rooney cites with appreciation in his book (Galazka photo) Ambassador Francis Rooney served [...]
By Lucy Gordan Monsignor Pasquale Iacobone was born in 1959 in Andria, a city near Bari, in Puglia, on the southern heel of Italy. He came to Rome in 1978 to study at the Jesuit Pontifical Gregorian University, where he completed all his studies, including his doctorate, in 1996. His thesis was on dogmatic theology in [...]
Pope will visit Bosnia and Herzegovina on June 6 An interview with Slavica Karačić, Ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Holy See Ambassador Karaˇci΄c meets Pope Francis, who will travel to her country on June 6. By Viktoria Somogyi Slavica Karaˇci΄c is not a career diplomat, but a politically appointed one. Despite her [...]
Marco Impagliaccio Interview with Marco Impagliaccio, President of the Rome-based Community of Sant’Egidio, known for its work for peace and the poor. By Giuseppe Rusconi Pope Francis greets diplomats during an audience with the Vatican diplomatic corps in the Apostolic Palace’s Sala Regia, March 22, 2013 (CNS photo/ Tony Gentile, Reuters). In [...]
By Mauro Pianta Who is the best at Latin? “Pope Benedict speaks it smoothly and perfectly.” What about Pope Francis? “It’s not true he doesn’t like it; on the contrary, he knows it very well and also makes corrections, but he doesn’t speak it much.” If he says so, then it must be true. That is because [...]
Holy Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica for the faithful of the Armenian rite, celebrated by Pope Francis and concelebrated by the Patriarch of the Armenian Catholic Church, Nerses Bedros XIX, in the presence of the Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II and Patriarch Catholicos of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church Aram [...]