Inside the Vatican – Top Ten People of 2021 & Covid Questions

Inside the Vatican – January/February 2022

Top Ten of 2021, Liturgy, Conscience & Conversion

The January/February 2022 issue of Inside the Vatican opens the year by highlighting courage, conscience, and faith in dark times. This issue presents Inside the Vatican’s annual Top Ten People of 2021, profiling ten individuals who refused to let darkness prevail. These powerful stories range from an American lieutenant colonel who worked desperately to save Christians during the final moments of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, to a member of the Swiss Guard dismissed for refusing to accept a Covid vaccine linked to abortion.

This issue also features an in-depth interview with traditional liturgy scholar Peter Kwasniewski, including excerpts from his book From Benedict’s Peace to Francis’s War. The discussion explores liturgical conflict, ecclesial authority, and the spiritual stakes of worship in contemporary Catholic life.

Additionally, the issue includes a review of a new book examining the so-called St. Gallen Mafia, shedding light on influential networks within modern Church history and ongoing debates about power and reform.

Rounding out the issue, Dr. Gavin Ashenden, former Anglican bishop and chaplain to the Queen of England, explains his journey out of the Church of England and into the Catholic Church. His personal account offers insight into conversion, authority, and the search for doctrinal truth.

This issue is essential reading for Catholics seeking faithful analysis of moral courage, liturgical debate, Church politics, and the personal cost of conscience and conversion.

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