Back Issues

  • In the September-October issue of Inside the Vatican: our Lead story introduces newly-minted Cardinal Victor Fernández of Argentina, Pope Francis' controversial pick to head the Vatican's doctrinal office; another Argentinian, Archbishop Héctor Aguer, critiques the Synod on Synodality's working document; Thomas Storck discusses the bitter socio-economic fruit borne of America's Protestant roots; and Robert Wiesner takes a fresh look at the Creed through the eyes of the iconographer.

    You don’t want to miss this latest issue of Inside the Vatican – especially as we celebrate our 30th year of independent publication in print, because “Print is where free thought stays alive.”

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  • In our September-October issue, we feature a profile of the courageous papal nuncio to Ukraine, Archbishop Visvaldas Kilbokas, who is trying to shepherd his suffering flock through the fog of war; our news reports spotlight some of Pope Francis’ latest changes at the Vatican; Professor Anthony Esolen questions whether the Synod on Synodality is really going to “the peripheries”; and John Byron Kuhner looks at the liturgical reform of Vatican II through the lens of Cardinal John Henry Newman’s conversion. We also have an interview with screen legend – and Catholic convert – Gary Cooper’s daughter Maria, and a glimpse of Rome’s “second Sistine Chapel.”

        You don’t want to miss this latest issue of Inside the Vatican – especially as we celebrate our 30th year of independent publication in print, because “Print is where free thought stays alive.”

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  • In our September-October 2021 issue, Inside the Vatican features a report on digital tracking of priests; a comprehensive "Dossier" on the motu proprio "Traditionis Custodes," restricting the Traditional Latin Mass; a moving reflection on the task of the liturgist by Professor David Fagerberg; and the "Message of the Icon" on Mary, offshoot of the "root of Jesse."

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  • ITV’s October 2020 issue features a fascinating interview about the famous “Mother” Pascalina, who served the brilliant and saintly Pope Pius XII for 41 years. Also in this issue is a remarkable story of one of the early crusaders for legal abortion who became a Catholic--and spent the rest of his life working to undo the damage he and the organization he helped found, NARAL, had done. And veteran vaccine researcher Theresa Deischer explains what’s so very wrong with today’s unsafe vaccine development.
  • In the November-December issue of Inside the Vatican: our Lead story profiles the Latin Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, and his offer of himself as hostage in place of innocent civilians in Gaza; we cover extensively the Synod on Synodality which ended October 28, and its implications for the Church; the modern Popes give us moving spiritual reflections on Christmas, accompanied by art of the Nativity; and Anthony Esolen offers a Christmas meditation on "Matthew's Astonishing Account of Christ's Birth."

    You don’t want to miss this latest issue of Inside the Vatican – especially as we celebrate our 30th year of independent publication in print, because “Print is where free thought stays alive.”

    To purchase the digital edition of the November/October 2023 issue of Inside the Vatican magazine, click here.

  •     In our November-December issue, we feature our signature Christmas "art essay" with reflections from "The Angelic Doctor," St. Thomas Aquinas. We also bring you a recent interview with the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller, on synodality and the Church as "welfare organization"; a special center pull-out newsletter of Urbi et Orbi Communications' Unitas initiative, which is bringing help and hope to suffering Christians in Lebanon and Ukraine; an interesting biography of an early Catholic champion of human dignity; and a meditation on the distinctive music of the season...and in our Food for Thought section, a brief history of pumpkin pie.

        You don’t want to miss this latest issue of Inside the Vatican – especially as we celebrate our 30th year of independent publication in print, because “Print is where free thought stays alive.”

    To purchase the digital edition of the November-December 2022 issue of Inside the Vatican magazine, click here.

  • In our November-December 2021 issue, we publish Vatican journalist Diane Montagna's new revelations about the Vatican document suppressing the Traditional Mass, Traditionis Custodes; Catholic economics author Thomas Storck examines the Vatican's recent foray into the UN's Conference on Trade and Development; T. Franche dite Laframboise explains why Doctrine is a "Treasury of Light"; and we celebrate Christmas with beloved St. Francis of Assisi.

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  • The November 2020 issue of Inside the Vatican magazine brings you a look at the Pope’s creation of 13 new cardinals — once again, in signature “Francis” form, from “the peripheries” of five continents...and this time, with a “particular accent on the sons of St. Francis.”  Francis’ new “mold-breaking” encyclical Fratelli tutti gets a critical reception from some Catholics, and a welcome one from others, as we feature a sampling of reactions to the Pope’s new 43,000-word document on the brotherhood of man. And Fr. Charles T. Murr, in our second installment, speaks at length with Kevin Symonds about the dramatic events he witnessed in the Roman Curia of the 1960s and 70s from his vantage point at the Vatican. ITV also covers changes at the Vatican’s finance offices; the return of Cardinal Pell to Rome; the call for a “neutral Lebanon”; and the first abuse trial within the Vatican itself. And Jan Bentz interviews veteran Vaticanist Edward Pentin on his new book, The Next Pope.
  •     In the May-June 2023 issue of Inside the Vatican: Critics rebut Archbishop Arthur Roche's claims that "Church teaching has changed" on the Mass; our signature "photo essay" follows the Holy Father through the Easter Triduum; Anthony Esolen inspires us to "drink deeply of the living waters"; and we learn about "Joseph Ratzinger, the gourmet."

        You don’t want to miss this latest issue of Inside the Vatican – especially as we celebrate our 30th year of independent publication in print, because “Print is where free thought stays alive.”

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  • In our May-June 2022 issue, we report on Pope Francis’ historic consecration of Russia, Ukraine and “all humanity” to Mary’s Immaculate Heart; editor Robert Moynihan asks, “What are Catholics experiencing?” since the promulgation of Traditionis Custodes – and three thoughtful writers answer; German journalist Michael Hesemann reflects on Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s remarkable life in the first of a two-part article on “The Light of Holy Saturday”; and sacred music composer, organist and YouTube host Aurelio Porfiri inaugurates our newest regular feature “Tradition and Beauty” with an analysis of contemporary “youth music” in church.

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