Back Issues

  • 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 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.

    To purchase the digital edition of the November-December 2021 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 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.

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