July 3rd, 2009 by Dr. Robert Moynihan
[Tuesday] began with the unveiling of the restored Pauline Chapel in the Vatican.
This was an extraordinary moment, for the Vatican, for world art, and even, perhaps, for theology — if we are permitted to allow Michelangelo to affect our theological…
July 2nd, 2009 by 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 Religions, or CESNUR), founded…
June 25th, 2009 by Dr. Robert Moynihan
I rang the bell by the massive double doors. A secretary answered, and buzzed me in.
My friend, a Vatican monsignor, was still working at his computer, his desk piled high with letters and books and news clipping from around the…
June 24th, 2009 by Dr. Robert Moynihan
June 23rd, 2009 by 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, or…
June 22nd, 2009 by Dr. Robert Moynihan
John Thavis, the Vatican reporter for the Catholic News Service of the US bishops conference, has just written an interesting column about how the media reacts to the Pope.
At the end of the column, he has this to say about the…
June 18th, 2009 by 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 one year at…
June 17th, 2009 by Dr. Robert Moynihan
"Where God is excluded, there is a breakdown of peace in the world; without God, no orthopraxis can save us. In fact, there does not exist an orthopraxis which is simply just, detached from a knowledge of what is good.…
June 16th, 2009 by Dr. Robert Moynihan
On Thursday evening, June 11 — the Solemnity of Corpus Christi , which is celebrated on Sunday (today) in the United States, Australia, and a number of other countries — Pope Benedict XVI, after driving in a car from the Vatican…
June 5th, 2009 by 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 the "Eternal…
