April 12, 2016, Tuesday -- The Pope's New Ambassador to the United States The report below ranges from the retirement of Archbishop Viganò to the Kim Davis case from last September to the question of whether Pope Francis believes we are entering into the apocalyptic period of the great apostasy. Meanwhile, I am preparing a full [...]
March 22, 2016, Tuesday -- The Nuncio A Man of the Church About half a decade ago, at an event in Rome, I ran into an American woman I hadn't seen for more than 20 years, since the time we were both students working on dissertations in the manuscript room of the Vatican Library. To my [...]
Sister Loraine Marie Maguire - During his September trip to the US, Pope Francis met with Sr. Maguire of the Little Sisters of the Poor The Little Sisters of the Poor, an order of Catholic nuns who care for the indigent elderly, urged the Supreme Court on January 4, 2016, to protect them from [...]
October 7, 2015, Wednesday — Mortality "Every life is sacred, every human person is endowed with an inalienable dignity, and society can only benefit from the rehabilitation of those convicted of crimes." —Pope Francis, on Thursday, September 24, in his address to the U.S. Congress during his visit to America; he called for the "global abolition" [...]
September 3, 2015, Thursday — Prison Our special 132-page Commemorative Edition of Inside the Vatican magazine welcoming Pope Francis to America is out. Subscribe now to receive this Commemorative issue for free. Stay informed on the critical events occuring in the Catholic Church in the coming months. Don’t miss an issue! Prison “If a law is [...]