September/October 2024

    In the September-October 2024 issue of Inside the Vatican, we offer some on-the-ground perspective on the war in Gaza as it now bleeds into Lebanon, and the Church’s struggle for peace amid the suffering; we present an entire “Dossier” on “Archbishop Viganò: Loyal Son of the Church or Schismatic?”; we debut our new section offering words of wisdom and grace by the Church Fathers; and Anthony Esolen pleads with us not to put our trust in politics this election season.

Table of Contents

EDITORIAL

Our Wrestling by Robert Moynihan

LEAD STORY

Pope Francis calls for immediate ceasefire as war in Gaza, and now Lebanon, escalates by Christopher Hart-Moynihan

NEWS

US/Vice-Presidential candidate J.D. Vance is a Catholic of a different stripe by Darrick Taylor, Ph.D.

HUNGARY/“Exiled” Russian Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion suspended by Peter Anderson

US/How Cardinal O’Malley’s replacement in Boston was picked by ITV staff

VATICAN/Pontifical Academy: Rethinking traditional ban on withholding food and water by ITV staff/Vatican News

VATICAN/Nuns must “hybridize” TLM; Cardinal Müller and “rehashed allegations”; New questions in Vatican cardinal’s past diocese by ITV staff/AC Wimmer (CNA) 

VATICAN/ Traditional Mass rumors spark a movement by ITV staff

DOSSIER: THE EXCOMMUNICATION OF ARCHBISHOP VIGANÒ

Is he a loyal son of the Church or a schismatic? by ITV staff 

“I have been summoned to the Palace of the Holy Office” by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

The Decree of Excommunication by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

In Sanguine Tuo: A homily for the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò

Reactions to Archbishop Vigano’s Excommunication by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith

CULTURE

Church Fathers/“What does Christ desire, but freely to give you life?” by St. Clement of Alexandria (c. 200 A.D.) 

Scripture/Are we putting our trust in politics? by Anthony Esolen

Spirituality Behind Bars/The Catholic Bard: Craftsman and Catechist by Marcellus Roberts

URBI ET ORBI: CATHOLICISM AND ORTHODOXY

Icon/The Creed: The Trinity and the Prophets by Robert Wiesner 

East-West Watch/Bulgarian Orthodox elect pro-Moscow Patriarch by Peter Anderson

News from the East/ Ukrainian treatment of war prisoners condemned; India solves liturgy dispute; Pope receives Russian Orthodox metropolitan; Byzantines at Eucharistic Congress by Matthew Trojacek

FEATURES

Tradition and Beauty/ Great Music Befits the Church of Christ by Aurelio Porfiri

Art/ Jewish Rome by Lucy Gordan

Education/The College of St. Joseph the Worker by Dr. Jacob Imam

Lord of the World/“Rome is gone. Now we must build something better” by Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson

Vatican Watch/A day-by-day chronicle of Vatican events: June-July, 2024 by Matthew Trojacek

People/ Jerome LeJeune; Carlo Acutis; Anglicans seeking “full communion”; Lourdes bishop by Matthew Trojacek

Food for Thought/ The Artichoke: Myth, botany and history by ITV staff

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