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Profiles, interviews and analysis of Vatican insiders, and the people who the Vatican is talking about.

Bishop Gerard Battersby: “Let’s listen to both the living and the dead”

The Bishop of LaCrosse, Wisconsin, on synodality, the Western contraction of the Church, and the new breed of young priests By Barbara Middleton for Inside the Vatican Bishop Gerard Battersby, 64, was installed in 2024 as the 11th bishop of the Diocese of La Cross, Wisconsin. Bishop Battersby was a “late vocation” — an increasing phenomenon [...]

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New cardinal of Palestinian descent says Gaza “Borders on horror”

“It Is right to talk about the genocide in Gaza, the Pope did well” – Cardinal Fernando Garib By Franca Giansoldati (Il Messagero) Fernando Chomalì Garìb, 67, archbishop of Santiago, Chile, elevated to cardinal by Pope Francis in the 2024 consistory on December 7 Among the 21 new cardinals elevated by Pope Francis in [...]

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Archbishop Aldo Cavalli on “the Holy Spirit at work in Medjugorje”

The Vatican has approved the “emergent spirituality” of Medjugorje in recent pronouncements. The Apostolic Visitor appointed by Pope Francis talks about why By Christine Mugridge* Map with tourist sites in Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Nazareth, the young “pre-teen” was caught by surprise during her time of prayer through the greeting of the heavenly [...]

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The Holy Spirit or the Spirit of the Times?

An interview with Cardinal Gerhard Müller, a Synod Father and former head of the Vatican's doctrinal office By Matt Gaspers Women were present in large numbers at the October 2024 Synod. One much-discussed question was whether women could be “deaconesses,” because women “deaconesses” were spoken of by St. Paul. However, scholars agree that the role [...]

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Swiss Guards; Jeff Bezos; Myanmar’s jailed former leader; Japanese scuptor; Akita visionary Sr. Agnes Sasagawa

By Matthew Trojacek with G. Galazka photos Swiss Guards send supplies to Ukraine The Pope’s charity has arrived once again at the epicenter of the conflict in Ukraine, extending his solidarity to the devastated region of Kharkiv, one of the areas most stricken by Russian bombings. On August 12, after an arduous four-day trip from Rome, [...]

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Vatican expert in AI: “Its goodness or evil depends on us”

An interview with Fr. Philip Larrey, PhD, on how Catholics are grappling with the AI explosion By ITV staff Rev. Philip Larrey, Ph.D., held the Chair of Logic and Epistemology at the Pontifical Lateran University in the Vatican for more than 20 years. He now teaches at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at [...]

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The joyful “parish priest” of St. Peter’s welcomes “jagged humanity”

Every day, he says, a curtain opens on each of the thousands of characters that inhabit St. Peter's Text by Christina Deardurff - Photos by Grzegorz Galazka Although St. Peter’s Basilica is the church most closely associated with the Pope (in his office as Pope, as well as geographically — he lives in its shadow), it [...]

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