Pope Francis greets Microsoft President Brad Smith today in Vatican City. | Vatican Media Letter #48, 2024, Monday, November 11: Microsoft Microsoft and several other companies, in collaboration with the Fabbrica of San Pietro, spent the last two and a half years creating a stunning new visual presentation of the St. Peter's Basilica using drones [...]
Pope Francis and President Zelensky met in May 2023 in the Vatican (Vatican Media) Letter #36, 2024, Thursday, October 10: Zelensky in Rome Pope Francis is scheduled to meet tomorrow morning at 9 am with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky. The meeting comes less than 4 weeks before the US election on November 5, [...]
Controversial archbishop summoned to Palace of the Holy Office on June 20 to answer charges (he did not go) By ITV staff The former apostolic nuncio to the U.S., Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó, 83, has been formally accused by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith [...]
The "techno-human condition" — the human inclination to use tools to mediate our environment — is natural, said Francis, but leaves us vulnerable By Joseph Tulloch (Vatican News) Pope Francis with some of the world’s most powerful political leaders in Italy on June 14 (VATICAN MEDIA/Ag.Romano Siciliani) On the afternoon of Friday, June 14, [...]
The Pope is continually portrayed as a "progressive" — but how "progressive" is he really? By ITV staff/Vatican News Pope Francis “never intended to offend” by using a slang term for homosexuals, said Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni. Others commented: Michael Day on the INews website in the UK and Robert Mickens, editor-in- chief of the [...]
"I regard the accusations against me as an honor." —Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, 83, in a statement issued today, June 20, 2024, regarding notification he has received, via email, that he is accused of schism by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the highest doctrinal office of the Church "The Dicastery for the [...]
Letter #20, 2024, Tuesday, June 18: End game? Is the Vatican about to call for the complete end of the old Latin Mass, after three years (since the promulgation of Traditionis custodes on July 16, 2021) of increasing administrative pressure to limit the celebration of the old liturgy worldwide? That's what a new report now [...]
Pope Francis celebrated the Feast of Corpus Christi yesterday in Rome. The celebration began with a Mass in the Basilica of St. John Lateran (on the opposite of the city from the Vatican and St. Peter's) followed by a Eucharistic procession down via Merulana to St. Mary Major. Corpus Christi (Latin for "The body of [...]
Pope Francis contemplates the Holy Door in St. Peter's Basilica (VATICAN MEDIA Divisione Foto) Here is Pope Francis today, on May 9, Ascension Thursday, sitting for a moment of contemplation in front of the Holy Door in St. Peter's Basilica as he promulgated the papal bull indicting the upcoming Jubilee Year of 2025, [...]
Pope Francis is mocked and castigated for daring to propose negotiation to end the bloodshed and destruction By ITV staff/CNA Vatican, May 13, 2023. Pope Francis meets the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky Pope Francis granted an interview March 9 in which he may have unwittingly dealt a blow to the Vatican’s position as [...]
