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From Moscow to Kazan

• Archives
• Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
• Inside the Vatican Magazine

I left off my last report, driving to the train station, and snapping a blurry photo of St. Basil’s Cathedral in the rain.
As I rode the overnight train to Kazan, I remembered that St. Basil’s Cathedral, on the edge… Read More

Angels & Demons: Frequently asked Questions — Do the Illuminati Really Exist?

• Archives
• Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
• Inside the Vatican Magazine

by Massimo Introvigne
Note : Massimo Introvigne is a widely respected Italian scholar whose research focuses on the "new religious movements" of our time. He is director the Centro Studi sulle Nuove Religioni (Center for the Study of the New… Read More

Padre Pio, a Model for all Priests

• Archives
• Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
• Inside the Vatican Magazine

What does holiness mean? What do we mean by the word “holy”?
It’s a serious question, just as serious as saying what do we mean by other words, like rain, or snow, or sunsets, or matter, or energy, or money,… Read More

Why He Said What He Said

• Media & Culture
• Saturday, June 20th, 2009
• Inside the Vatican Magazine

by Delia Gallagher
When the Director of the Vatican newspaper, Gian Maria Vian, declared a few weeks ago that “Obama is not a pro-abortion president,” a comment that came after an editorial which on balance spoke positively of the US… Read More

The Overseer of Justice

• Archives
• Thursday, June 18th, 2009
• Inside the Vatican Magazine

By Andrew Rabel , reporting from Rome
Pope Benedict XVI one year ago ago called an American, Archbishop Raymond Burke , to head the Apostolic Signatura, the office which oversees the correct administration of justice in the Church. Here, after… Read More

“A Matter Between My Maker and Myself”

• Archives
• Friday, June 5th, 2009
• Inside the Vatican Magazine

By Andrew Rabel
Editor’s note: From time to time, Inside the Vatican publishes interviews with key figures in Rome, both in and out of the Roman Curia.
Some of these figures are in the large diplomatic community in Rome, for… Read More

Will Kirill and Benedict Meet?

• Archives
• Friday, May 1st, 2009
• Inside the Vatican Magazine

The new Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill, 62, has met Pope Benedict XVI, who turned 82 a few days ago, three times already — but that was before Kirill became Patriarch.
Now, after nearly 100 days in office,… Read More

The Bravery of Glendon

• Archives
• Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
• Inside the Vatican Magazine

By Andrew Rabel

I am here late in the evening in the office of Inside the Vatican in Rome, and I have just learnt this fabulous news— that the former US Ambassador to the Holy See, the Catholic professor of… Read More

In Memoriam: Father Stanley Jaki

• Archives
• Monday, April 27th, 2009
• Inside the Vatican Magazine

By Robert Mauro

Father Stanley Ladislas Jaki, OSB (1924-2009), Distinguished Professor of Physics at Seton Hall University, New Jersey, since 1975 and one of the world’s leading historians of science and its relationship with religion, died in Madrid on April… Read More

“I Pray St. Nuno Blesses the World”

• Archives
• Friday, April 17th, 2009
• Inside the Vatican Magazine

By Andrew Rabel

On April 26 in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Benedict XVI will canonize a Portuguese national hero who toward the end of his life became a Carmelite monk and served the poor, Nuno de Santa Maria Àlvares Pereira… Read More