Inside the Vatican

  • Announcing Inside the Vatican’s special 2022 issue dedicated entirely to

    Mary Behold Your Mother

    Woman! above all women glorified,
     Our tainted nature’s solitary boast.
    –William Wordsworth 

    The Angel Gabriel’s astounding message was only the beginning…her life, her virtues and her complete faith have opened the door to salvation for numberless souls through 20 centuries. 

    Today, they are more compelling than ever.

    This “coffee table” quality publication makes a beautiful, thoughtful gift to be shared all year round.

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  • In the March-April 2024 issue of Inside the Vatican, our Lead story covers the Pope's condemnation of surrogacy, IVF and all technologies that reduce human beings to commodities; we follow African Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo's extraordinary trip to Rome to register African rejection of Fiducia Supplicans; Benedict XVI biographer Peter Seewald talks about the late Pope's "heartbreak"; and Russia's new ambassador to the Holy See talks about his — and the Vatican's — diplomatic mission.

    You don’t want to miss this latest issue of Inside the Vatican – because “Print is where free thought stays alive.”

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  • In our March-April 2022 issue, we feature a series of contributors who each reflect on the character and influence of the Pope Emeritus, Joseph Ratzinger, who turns 95; James Baresel critiques Vatican liturgy head Archbishop Roche's views opposing the Traditional Mass; college president Michael McLean explains "The Tyranny of the Modern College Campus"; and some who knew her best say goodbye to one of the 20th century's great Catholic philosophers, Alice von Hildebrand.

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  • Inside the Vatican's March-April issue features an explosive interview with the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Müller; a sampling of opinion on the Pope's new directive that allows women lectors and acolytes at the altar; and an insightful reflection from Joseph Pearce on "Adopting God's Perspective in a Troublous Time." And to help you observe Lent, Holy Week and Easter, we bring you another signature Art Essay with inspiring passages from Popes, Fathers of the Church and Sacred Scripture.

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  • 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.

    You don’t want to miss this latest issue of Inside the Vatican – because “Print is where free thought stays alive.”

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  • In the July-August issue of Inside the Vatican: Pope Francis' offers to attempt to broker peace in Ukraine are rebuffed by President Zelensky; we look at potential candidates in the next papal conclave; our special "Education" section shows parents how to cure the Catholic education headache; and our resident expert on the Eastern churches, Peter Anderson, explains the conflict over Ukraine's ancient Lavra.

    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 July-August 2022 issue, Christopher Hart-Moynihan reports on Lebanon, a land where incredible beauty, culture, history and faith coexist with political corruption, economic collapse and social turmoil – and how the Catholic Church is a cohesive force for good there. We also profile the 21 new cardinals just named by Pope Francis – most of them eligible to vote for the next Pope. Michael Hesemann continues his reflection on Pope Benedict XVI in “The Light of Holy Saturday, Part 2,” and Mary Ellen Stanford shines a light on St. Edith Stein and her role in "Understanding the Feminine" in a time of mass confusion. And our News of the East follows dramatic events unfolding in Orthodoxy since the conflict in Ukraine began.     And you won't want to miss our newsletter insert "Communique" with updates on the efforts of Urbi et Orbi Communications to help the suffering and bring unity in Ukraine and Lebanon.

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  • In our July-August issue, Inside the Vatican features Bishop Athanasius Schneider's penetrating essay on the Mass; a report on Cardinal Gerhard Marx's rebuffed offer to resign; James Bertrand's interview with a researcher of the "Holy Fire" phenomenon; and a reflection by Anthony Esolen on the poetry of Scripture.

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  • In the January-February 2024 issue of Inside the Vatican, we follow from beginning to end the Vatican "Trial of the Century" which convicted curial Cardinal Angelo Becciu and eight others after 30 months and 600 courtroom hours; we profile our annual Top Ten personalities of 2023 — Shining Lights in an Often-dark Sky; American Cardinal James Francis Stafford talks to ITV about his 91 years from childhood to the Vatican and now retirement; and Maestro Aurelio Porfiri gives us his take on both the pitfalls but also the possibilities of AI in human culture.

    You don’t want to miss this latest issue of Inside the Vatican – because “Print is where free thought stays alive.”

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