In the July-August 2024 issue of Inside the Vatican, we begin to examine the explosive case of Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, just notified of his excommunication by the Vatican; we analyze the Church’s new document changing criteria for judging supernatural phenomena; we sample opinions on the art of disgraced Jesuit Marko Rupnik, and keeping it in public view, and we profile the jolly friar who is the “pastor” of a unique parish — St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.
LEAD STORY
Vatican issues new rules for judging apparitions by Robert Moynihan
NEWS
ITALY/Pope to G7: “Keep the AI revolution human” by Joseph Tulloch (Vatican News)
VATICAN/AI expert Fr. Philip Larrey: “Its goodness or evil depends on us” by ITV staff
VATICAN/Accused of Schism: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò by ITV staff
VATICAN/Historic First: Chinese bishop addresses Vatican conference by ITV staff/Vatican News
COMMENTARY/How the Francis pontificate will determine the next Pope by Damian Thompson/unherd.com
VATICAN/ Francis surprises: How “progressive” is he really? by ITV staff
COMMENTARY/What do we do with Rupnik’s art? by Christina Deardurff
VATICAN/ Vatican releases new “study document” on papal primacy by Zenit/ITV staff
CULTURE
Profile/Fra Agnello Stoia, the Joyful “Parish Priest” of St. Peter’s Basilica by Christina Deardurff
Interview/Bioethicist Fr. Ralph Weimann: “We are in a disastrous situation” by ITV staff
Scripture/The Goodness of Hierarchy by Anthony Esolen
Spirituality Behind Bars/The Heart Check by Marcellus Roberts
URBI ET ORBI: CATHOLICISM AND ORTHODOXY
Icon/The Creed: The Holy Spirit by Robert Wiesner
East-West Watch/The “Ancient Patriarchates”
FEATURES
Tradition and Beauty/ Jubilee for Catholic Artists: Time to reclaim the call to beauty? by Aurelio Porfiri
Art/A Blind Singer’s Shining Soul: The Philanthropy of Andrea Bocelli by Lucy Gordan
Lord of the World/“Faith in Man was the very essence of religion” by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson
Vatican Watch/A day-by-day chronicle of Vatican events: April-June, 2024 by Matthew Trojacek
Food for Thought/ When in Rome, eat like a Roman by ITV staff
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