After the statement from the Rome vicariate on Monday announcing a clean bill of health for the Centro Aletti, the only question is: What do you call a whitewash that is also a coverup that […]
Pope Francis is worried about the synod, and he wants journalists to help tell the real story of it—only it appears he also wants them to tell it as told by the managers of his […]
“Journalism is the first draft of history,” the saying goes, and journalists who wrote the first draft of Pope Francis’s visit to Mongolia earlier this month made some note of its genuinely historic character. Most […]
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Ronald Reagan famously – or infamously – offered the quip during a presidential press conference in […]
Among the interesting news items in the daily bulletin from the press office of the Holy See on Tuesday of this week was a communiqué from the Dicastery for Integral Human Development. It was announcing […]
With World Youth Day celebrations underway today in Lisbon, the curtain is up on what many pope-watchers already believe to be the last act of the Francis pontificate. There is a certain poetic arc to […]
Marko Rupnik is no longer Fr. Marko Rupnik SJ, which is the way he wants it. Well, he gets it. I don’t like it any more than you. Marko Rupnik is still—intolerably—Fr. Marko Rupnik, though […]
There’s a great story about the late Cardinal John Foley—the long-serving Vatican hand who headed the now-defunct Pontifical Council for Social Communications from 1984 until 2007 before becoming the Grand Master of the Equestrian Order […]
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve received mail, messages, comments, or other communications over the past few years—often in response to something I’d written but not infrequently unsolicited and à propos of […]
Pope Francis on Sunday announced a consistory for the creation of new cardinals, and it’s a bumper crop. On September 30th, eighteen new red hats will gain voting rights in the next conclave, bringing the […]
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