Last Week in the Church with John Allen: Recent Episodes
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Tune in weekly as John Allen gives his expert insight and analysis on the latest news from the Catholic Church.
In this episode:
- Papabile speculation: inappropriate or essential?
- Pope’s Corsica trip: part of a bigger plan?
- Vatican staff rejects political interview
- Jubilee 2025: an LGBTQ+ pilgrimage?
- Peru scandal: reporting to the Pope
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In this episode:
- Are Christians safe in Syria after Assad regime’s fall?
- Peru scandal: problems for Vatican’s sovereignty?
- Pope skips out on Notre Dame’s reopening: a snub?
- Vatican’s Nativity set sparks questions from Israel
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In this episode:
- US Bishops vs. Trump on deportations
- Pope’s Turkey visit: a geopolitical agenda?
- Vatican on mysticism: what is ‘spiritual abuse’?
- Vatican confirms secret file on ‘Vatican Girl’ case
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In this episode:
- Outrage as Pope asks for ‘sacrifice’ in money crisis
- Pope blasted: annulling SCV excommunication?
- Vatican hospital in crisis: will recovery plan be enough?
- Why does the Vatican owe a debt to Lucifer?
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In this episode:
- Controversial priest defrocked a second time
- Priest disputes Pope Francis' legitimacy: laicized
- Women’s branch of SCV also entrenched in abuse?
- Vatican’s Christmas tree stokes eco-protest
- Conman busted for impersonating Vatican prelate
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In this episode:
- ‘Trial of the Century’: verdict motivations revealed
- Pope’s reform targets Cardinals
- Cardinal raises warning on beatification of Belgian king
- Vatican investigator receives criminal complaint
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In this episode:
- Vatican employees protesting. Why?
- Synod: global South tells West to buzz off
- Synod pushing for legal changes to Church structures?
- Cardinal purposely skipping Synod meetings?
- Pope releasing own autobiography, a historic first?
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In this epiosde:
- Are Jewish-Catholic relations in crisis?
- What is the Synod’s agenda?
- Abuse destroys Sodalitium Christianae Vitae
- What did the Pope and Zelenskyy talk about?
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In this episode:
- The 21 new cardinals
- Hamas attacks: Vatican still neutral one year later?
- ‘No’ to women deacons at Synod
- Outrage: Belgian Prime Minister lashes out at Pope
- Liberal or conservative: who is Pope Francis?
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In this episode:
- Pope on women: sparks college backlash
- Synod of Bishops: an anticlimactic end?
- Pope approves expulsion of 10 SCV members
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In this episode:
- Pope to face hostility in Belgium?
- Why fixing the Church is so hard
- Scandal hasn’t brought down the Church
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In this episode:
- Pope slams both presidential candidates
- A testament to Pope’s strength shown on Oceania trip
- Pope praises Singapore’s multi-faith approach
- Islam’s rise in Europe inevitable, says Card. Schönborn
- Self-professed archbishop denounced as fake
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In this episode:
- Pope’s presence in Indonesia riles up radicals
- Pope delivers gifts and spiritual aid to margins
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church lashes out at Pope
- Vatican Bank says ‘no’ to employees marrying?
- Pope to canonize martyrs killed by Islamic extremists
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In this episode:
- Pope’s odyssey in Asia & Oceania
- Bishops differ: regionalism v. strong central govt.
- Pope v. General: Italy’s immigration debate
- Vatican calling for a ban on ‘killer robots’
- Farewell, Fr. Gerald O’Collins
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In this episode:
- Did the Holy See loosen its stance on end-of-life?
- Blackouts in Rome: trouble for the Jubilee?
- Audio files revealed in ‘Vatican Girl’ case
- Agenda for Pope’s Asia trip
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In this episode:
- Cardinal O’Malley replaced by Bishop Richard Henning
- Olympic opening ceremony: Catholic outrage
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In this episode:
- Biden's withdrawal parallels Benedict XVI
- Popes & assassins: historic close calls
- Eucharistic revival for Americans?
- Holy See banning the Latin Mass?
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In this episode:
- Trump assassination attempt: Church weighs in
- Vatican’s doc on Synod of Synodality a letdown?
- Vatican workers beg Pope to face staff issues
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In this episode:
- Vatican declares Archbishop Viganò excommunicated
- Pope worried democracy is failing
- New verdicts in ‘Trial of the Century’?
- Benedict XVI & Francis: a possible penitential pilgrimage?
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In this episode:
- Cardinal O’Malley pushes for Vatican accountability
- Capuchin cardinal reaches milestone at 80
- Vatican demands changes to German Synodal Way
- Pope changes tune on tattoos in the Vatican
- Pattern of abuse within Missionaries of Charity?
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In this episode:
- Archbishop Viganò charged with schism
- Spanish nuns excommunicated after sect claim
- Vatican defends use of Rupnik’s art
- Church/State lines being blurred in Italy?
- Pope shipping Gänswein off to Latvia
- Another big Vatican real estate deal on the table?
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In this episode:
- Pope made homophobic & misogynist remarks?
- Vatican balks at Ukraine using NATO weapons
- Italy’s PM tells bishops to back off of constitutional reform
- U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See stepping down
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In this episode:
- Pope upstaged at World Children’s Day
- Papal authority rejected by Chinese government
- Vatican tries to address Coptic uproar
- First millennial saint set to be canonized
- Rome’s infrastructure ready for Jubilee 2025?
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In this episode:
- War of words heats up between Vatican & Israel
- Peace rally sees Pope back in full force
- Vatican rules on supernatural apparitions
- False mysticism legal impediment in Rupnik case
- Controversial Chinese bishop to speak at Vatican conference
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In this episode:
- EU vs. Trump - will the Vatican get their way?
- Israel objects to ‘genocide’ statement at Vatican event
- Jokes and protests at papal event
- Female forces head to head in Vatican lawsuit
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In this episode:
- Leading papal candidate targeted by government
- 6 ‘swing states’ to shape Church’s global future?
- Horror and hope in youth prison scandal
- Another criminal arrest at Pope’s address
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In this episode:
- Pope visits women’s prison for first 2024 trip
- Francis resurrects papal title Benedict XVI renounced
- Cardinal Parolin slams EU Parliament on abortion
- Pope to speak on AI at G7 summit
- 4 bishops withdraw from German Synodal Way
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In this episode:
- Pope’s security breached by US fugitive
- Vatican censorship trial dismissed
- Vatican agrees with Italy’s new abortion policy?
- Cardinal Becciu to sue Vatican?
- Pope confirms Perlasca as star witness
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In this episode:
- Pope to make Gänswein his envoy?
- Pope planning lengthy Asia/Oceania trip
- Vatican lodges complaint against nun’s wins
- Anti-papal sentiment on the rise?
- Cardinal snubbed at Congo airport
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In this episode:
- Pope slams gender theory, surrogacy & sex change
- Pope meets families of Israeli hostages
- Pope removes Cardinal Donatis
- Pope under fire for interview book
- Pope travels to slums to meet with priests
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In this episode:
- Pope struggles over Easter
- Pope avoids significant topics in Easter address
- Francis sheds light on Benedict XVI’s election
- Gänswein: why is he a thorn in the Pope’s side?
- Pope’s Ukraine comment causes uproar in Italian politics
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In this episode:
- Is the Pope okay?
- Vatican challenges German bishops
- ISIS attack in Russia a risk for Easter?
- Belgian bishop defrocked
- Remembering the Ardeatine massacres
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In this episode:
- Pope Francis's biography is revealing
- Pope won’t resign like Benedict XVI
- Critics getting under Pope’s skin?
- Conclaves: revisions ahead?
- Pope doubles down on Fiducia Supplicans
- Pope’s abortion stance contradicting?
- ‘Vatican Girl’: Pope renews calls for truth
- Remembrance of Fr. Giuseppe Diana
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In this episode:
- Major backlash following Pope’s Ukraine comment
- Pope bounces back after bronchitis
- Coptic Church cutting ties with Vatican over gay blessings?
- Pope visits controversial Belgian bishop
- 11 years of Pope Francis
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In this episode:
- Is the Pope bouncing back?
- Anonymous Cardinal attacks Francis papacy
- Is a stay-at-home Pope realistic?
- Pope takes a swipe at gender theory
- Secularism: friend or foe?
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In this episode:
- 2 years of war: can Vatican offer hope?
- Pope’s latest health scare reason for alarm?
- Rupnik’s accusers criticize Pope’s ‘reformed’ system
- Vatican forced to intervene with German bishops
- Is Mafia making moves on Italian priests?
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In this episode:
- Pope’s letter to Jews received with silence?
- Historic meeting: Pope and Argentine Pres. Milei
- Remembering a forgotten WWII tragedy
- Vatican target of organized crime?
- Ercolina II makes appearance at Pope’s address
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In this episode:
- Vatican cracks down on liturgical abuse
- Jewish community unhappy with Pope’s letter
- Could the next Pope come from Congo?
- Vatican shirking responsibility for ‘vulnerable adults’?
- ‘Vatican Girl’: brother supplies ‘new’ evidence
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In this episode:
- Did Pope just escalate debates on Fiducia Supplicans?
- Chief Rabbi disappointed by Vatican’s handling of Gaza
- Vatican court’s first conviction for sexual abuse
- ISIS opens fire on Christians in Turkish church
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In this episode:
- African bishops challenge Pope Francis
- Parliamentary inquest into ‘Vatican Girl’
- Pope in the polls: what does America think?
- Pope on resigning and future travels
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In this episode:
- Holy Office approved blessing same-sex unions?
- God and orgasms: a book written by Cardinal Fernandez
- Pope calls for global ban on surrogacy
- Musings on Pope’s trip to Mongolia
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In this episode:
- Cardinal adviser of Pope convicted of financial crime
- Did Israel attack only Catholic parish in Gaza?
- Pope chooses burial site: not the Vatican
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In this episode:
- Pope saving strength for Christmas calendar
- Pope changing conclave rules?
- End of Vatican trial: all eyes on Cardinal Becciu
- Pope to visit Milei's Argentina?
- Michael Voris of Church Militant resigns
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In this episode:
- Bronchitis keeping Pope down
- Pope moves on Cardinal Burke
- German Synodal Way: Pope speaks out
- COP28: is climate change a religious problem?
- NGO scandal: dangerous friends of the Pope
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In this episode:
- Pope has inflammation in his lung
- Impossible to ignore Pope’s growing Jewish problem
- Italian femicide epidemic: where’s the Vatican?
- Pentecostal explosion: African bishops are concerned
- Will Pope’s strength return before COP28?
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In this episode:
- Anti-Pope Milei now President of Argentina
- Masons: Vatican holds ground on ban for Catholics
- Israel-Palestine: Pope to meet victims
- Vatican trial wrap-up: verdict in December?
- Rumors abound about Pope Francis pontificate
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In this episode:
- Transsexuals: Pope responds to dubia
- Bishop Strickland of Texas fired by the Pope
- Is Pope Francis above the law?
- Did the Vatican cover up the first video of a pope?
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In this episode:
- Pope strategically dodging tough media questions?
- COP28 destined for failure despite Pope's attendance?
- Iran keeping an open line to the Vatican
- Italy cracks down on tax evasion for Vatican citizens
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In this episode:
- Rupnik: Pope lifts statute of limitations
- Pope’s Synod: what was the point?
- Chief Rabbi cautions Pope
- Church more welcoming than people think
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In this episode:
- Synodality: will it die with Pope Francis?
- Pope calls Biden: Stop WW3
- ‘Trial of the Century’: Vatican seeking scapegoats?
- Argentina’s anti-Pope candidate: Javier Milei
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In this episode:
- Israel wants Pope to condemn Hamas
- Synod on Synodality: where is it taking us?
- ‘Trial of the Century’: the limits of Vatican law
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In this episode:
- Israel issues strong warning to Pope
- Secret Synod: Pope muzzling participants?
- Priest shortage gets worse in Africa
- ‘Trial of the Century’: coming to a close?
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In this episode:
- Cardinals pose dubia to Pope Francis
- Pope Francis’s Synod of Secrecy
- Abuse commission blasts Pope’s Vatican
- Vatican demands $700mil. from corrupt bureaucrats
- Will Pope’s new exhortation make waves at COP28?
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In this episode:
- Pope Francis challenges EU's anti-migrant stance in Marseille visit
- Media's 'conspiracy of silence' on Pope’s staunch euthanasia and abortion position highlighted
- Unfolding sexual assault scandal of ex-Jesuit Fr. Marko Rupnik
- Pope honors ex-communist, late Italian president Napolitano
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In this episode:
- Vatican/Beijing relations improving?
- Pope’s effort to rescue kidnapped Ukrainian children
- Pope Pius XII knew about the Holocaust and did nothing?
- Church weighs in on migration crisis in EU
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In this episode:
- Zelensky’s top man blasts Pope as ‘pro-Russian’
- Anti-fascist graffiti discovered in Vatican
- Pope’s Synod: looming media disaster?
- Heroic Polish family beatified for protecting Jews
- Opus Dei left canonically floundering
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In this episode:
- Highlights of Pope's trip to Mongolia
- Did the Pope spread Russian imperialist propaganda?
- Pope tells Americans to ‘get over it’
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In this episode:
- Mongolia: why is the Pope going?
- Pope’s Synod: are we headed toward schism?
- BRICS: why is the Pope interested?
- Syro-Malabar: papal envoy like a ‘Medieval inquisitor’
- Italians abandoning the Catholic Church?
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In this episode:
- Pope appoints auxiliary bishop as cardinal
- Vatican pays homage to 2 legendary writers
- Anti-mafia saints honored with a parish in Sicily
- Vatican’s scapegoat for corruption dies
- Gänswein is back: problem for the Pope?
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In this episode:
- Pope’s bombshells at World Youth Day
- Pope: ‘Church isn’t closed-minded on women/LGBTQ+’
- Did Pope mean to ignore Ukraine in Fatima?
- Pope on Vatican III: ‘Church is not ready yet’
- Syro-Malabar Church responds to Crux
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In this episode:
- Pope’s last World Youth Day?
- Pope’s corruption investigators in Peru
- Key cardinal facing 7 years in jail for corruption?
- Pope calls out Putin on grain shortage
- Code of Camaldoli: history’s greatest dream
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In this episode:
- Pope’s envoy meets with President Biden: failure?
- Corruption in Syro-Malabar Church?
- The Pope who defied the bombs
- Pride parades and World Youth Day
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In this episode:
- Vatican’s sovereignty actually matters?
- Vatican/Israel: mending fences?
- Why should you know Bishop Luigi Bettazzi?
- Vatican trying to broker peace in Armenia?
- Chinese government asserting dominance over Holy See?
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In this episode:
- Pope creates 21 new cardinals: a rundown
- Pope stacks the deck for the next conclave
- Rundown of papal contenders (papabile)
- Consistory: who wasn’t invited to the party?
- Why appoint cardinals who can’t vote?
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In this episode:
- Pope creates 21 new cardinals: a rundown
- Pope stacks the deck for the next conclave
- Rundown of papal contenders (papabile)
- Consistory: who wasn’t invited to the party?
- Why appoint cardinals who can’t vote?
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In this episode:
- Pope appoints controversial protégé as head of CDF
- Was Moscow mediation mission a failure?
- Ignore Rome ‘at your own peril’, advises Vegas Archbishop
- Pope’s communication reform a trainwreck?
- Pope cracking down on dissenting American bishops?
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In this episode:
- Patriarch Kirill backs Putin during Wagner uprising
- Is the Pope’s new anti-abuse framework working?
- ‘Piss Christ’ artist invited to Vatican: why?
- Can the Italian State survive Jubilee 2025?
- ‘Vatican Girl’: Pope offers family words of comfort
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In this episode:
- Pope returns from the hospital
- Benedict XVI’s secretary Gänswein returns to Germany
- Jesuits expel Fr. Rupnik over abuse accusations
- ‘Vatican Girl’: brother demands Pope’s attention at Sunday Angelus
- John Kerry refuses to speak to Pope’s Ukraine mediator role
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In this episode:
- Why is the Vatican struggling to be clear about Pope's health?
- Is the Pope’s Ukraine envoy going to Moscow?
- 1858 infamous kidnapping could lead to Canon Law reform
- Rise of the ‘preferiti’ as the Pope’s health declines?
- Controversial Nobel Laureate crashes fraternity party
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In this episode:
- Pope makes American president of Vatican Supreme Court
- Pope sends Archbishop Gänswein packing?
- Pope removes possibility for appeals in criminal trials
- ‘Vatican Girl’ conspiracy implicates Dominicans?
- Naked protester climbs on top of St. Peter's altar
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In this episode:
- Pope skips out on audience - another health scare?
- ‘Trial of the Century’: conspiracy to defame Becciu?
- Vatican condemns actions of environmental activists?
- Italy’s ‘obedient rebel’, Fr. Lorenzo Milani
- Pope avoiding questions from critical journalists?
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In this episode:
- Pope’s Ukraine envoy “papabile”
- POTUS vs. Pope: Ukraine, Syria, China
- New Vatican stamps: glorifying colonialism?
- Pope’s new laws not labor-friendly?
- Person rams Vatican gates with car
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In this episode:
- Ukraine President: Pope needs to fall in or butt out
- Meeting of 2 Popes: embracing Coptic Martyrs
- Pope’s charity gets new Japanese leader
- Negotiating with terrorists: US and Vatican
- Pope allows laity to participate in Vatican government
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In this episode:
- Is there really a papal mission to end Russia’s war?
- King’s Coronation: Cardinal finally present after 400-year absence
- Papal contender invokes ancient Roman legend on abortion
- ‘Vatican girl’: investigation going nowhere?
- Naples soccer: important win for the South
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In this episode:
- Pope confronted on Vatican Press Office lies?
- Pope vs Orbán: competing visions of Christianity?
- Pope lobbies for peace with Russian Orthodox Metropolitan
- Vatican: women voting in next Synod
- Gänswein being exiled from Vatican?
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In this episode:
- Orlandi walks back JP II pedophilia accusations
- “Trial of the Century”: no-show witness sets back prosecution
- Crackdown on Sistine Chapel festivities
- Radical vandals might call Pope as witness
- Musk vs Pope: biggest claim to infallibility?
- Pope gifts true cross relics to King Charles
- Hungary trip: bridge between east and west?
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In this episode:
- Mobster points at John Paul II in Orlandi case?
- Devout Catholics' don’t trust Pope?
- Ukraine angry at Vatican for Easter controversy
- “Bleeding Madonna”: a scam
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In this episode:
- Pope skips Good Friday
- Backlash: Pope conflates Russian & Ukrainian suffering?
- Pope leads first Holy Week without Benedict
- Rupnik art to be trashed amid sexual abuse allegations?
- Church’s social justice push is part of evangelization
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In this episode:
- Papal health scare: Pope’s stint in the hospital
- Key Vatican advisor to Pope resigns
- Vatican disowns Doctrine of Discovery?
- Prominent atheist calls Pope “vindictive”?
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In this episode:
- Pope supporting controversial NGO?
- Pope too soft on criminal bishops?
- Europe's bishops moving more progressive?
- Former pope’s secretary, Gänswein, exiled to Costa Rica?
- Remembering a Nazi massacre of Italians
- German Synod proving Pope’s limitations?
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In this episode:
- John Paul II covered up sexual abuse?
- Votes in for same-sex blessings in Germany
- Pope pens letter to top Iraqi Muslim leader
- Becciu redeemed? New letters in “Trial of the Century”
- Baseball and brotherhood
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In this episode:
- “Trial of the Century”: Pope Francis rebuffs Becciu
- Vatican hiding investigation records?
- Pope hints at end of priestly celibacy?
- Did the Pope praise Putin and Modi?
- The Pope and Mikhail Gorbachev: a comparison
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In this episode:
- Pope slams traffickers as shipwreck fuels politics
- Were Christians’ votes suppressed in Nigeria?
- 2 years into Ukraine war: is Pope’s soft power waning?
- Is the Pope a hypocrite on synodality?
- Does it matter who’s Pope?
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In this episode:
- Pope changes tune on papal resignation?
- President of Vatican Bank bullied to sign off on loan?
- Jesuit Fr. Rupnik: who lifted the excommunication?
- 5 archbishops passed over for Cardinal’s hat
- Pope Francis: top 5 trips
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In this episode:
- German schism inevitable?
- Pope's private meeting with cardinal on trial a scandal?
- Pope vs. Gänswein: who is right about Benedict?
- Pope meets with China envoy despite balloon controversy
- Vatican trying to keep new bishops’ appointments quiet?
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In this episode:
- Pope claims Benedict XVI’s death was instrumentalized
- Catholics in India & risk of “Saffron Taliban”
- Does the Pope’s trip to Africa matter?
- Cardinal Ouellet steps down to fight sexual assault charges
- Vatican releases nuns from vows, kicks them from convent
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In this episode:
- Catholicism: Africa booms - West going bust
- Pope calls to decriminalize homosexuality
- Pope says German Synodal Way is “dangerous”
- Italian rapper under fire for “Vatican Girl” remarks
- “Trial of the Century” bombshell not called as defense witness
- Priests compete again in Cooks with Collars
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In this episode:
- Tell-all books start of Catholic Civil War?
- Gänswein: stories of Benedict XVI
- Pope’s preface for Benedict XVI’s “God is Always New”
- Benedict XVI: posthumous essays
- Benedict XVI’s letter to Cardinal Pell in prison
- Tell-all of Cardinal Müller criticizes Pope’s failures
- Italian “Dr. Phil”: interview with the Pope
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In this episode:
- Death of Cardinal Pell - his life and legacy
- Vatican opens investigation into “Vatican Girl”
- Testimonies are contradicting: Vatican “Trial of the Century”
- $2 billion plan to upgrade Rome for Jubilee of Hope
- Death of two titans of the Catholic Church: Palermo’s missionary & Sr. “Rita”
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In this episode:
- Benedict XVI's funeral: why it was “a simple, sober affair”
- Pope criticized for downplaying Benedict XVI’s death
- Culture Wars: Pope Benedict’s death fuel for the fire?
- Archbishop Georg Gänswein: new book taking digs at the Pope?
- Benedict XVI’s legacy
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In this episode:
- Pope turns 86 with no indication of retirement
- Pope follows Paul VI with resignation letter, but would it be valid?
- Russia praises Pope for “ability to admit mistakes”
- Could the Pope overcome Russian skepticism and achieve peace?
- Joanna of Austria: first and only female Jesuit?
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In this episode:
- Pope’s secret weapon for peace in Ukraine
- Pontifical Academy for Life “embarrassing”?
- Pope executes new financial controls for Vatican-sponsored foundations
- Did the unexpected death of a top communist influence the Cold War’s outcome?
- Does a secret recording link “Vatican Girl” kidnapping to Italian crime boss?
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In this episode:
- Russia blocking a road to the Vatican in Rome?
- Pope faces backlash over Russian war comments
- “The Vatican’s Little Black Book”: 50 years of secrets and lies
- New developments in “Vatican Girl” story
- New bombshell in “Trial of the Century”
- Vatican’s websites hacked
- Pope shakes up another Vatican department with leadership change
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In this episode:
- Pope moves on Caritas Internationalis
- Disgraced Cardinal Becciu recorded call with Pope
- No fallout for Belgian bishops who gave same-sex blessings
- Cardinal Joseph Zen convicted by a Hong Kong court
- Eritrea bishop sent to dismal prison
- Pope’s emotional letter for 9-month anniversary of Ukraine War
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In this episode:
- Sex abuse report from Italian bishops “incomprehensive”
- Vatican wants a moratorium on German bishops’ Synodal Way
- First auditor general rocks Vatican with lawsuit
- Why does the Pope visit family in Asti, but not Argentina?
- Netflix documentary review: “Vatican Girl” leaves you wanting more
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In this episode:
- Pope moves to cement his legacy
- Activists ask: “Why is the Pope coming to Bahrain?”
- Death of one of the “Amigos” - Archbishop Fiorenza of Houston dies at 91
- Pro-life crusade: Bishop Barron’s campaign against abortion of the disabled
- John Allen: signs of hope in the American Church
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In this episode:
- Nobel for Literature to Annie Ernaux as abortion memoir becomes movie
- Why hasn’t a Pope won a Nobel prize?
- Vatican covers up bishop’s sexual abuse?
- Catholic fast facts: shortest papacy, fastest sainthood, most canonizations
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In this episode:
- Pope responds to Putin’s nuclear threats
- Pope accused of paying off financier in connection with famed Vatican trial
- Peace prize winning bishop of East Timor accused of sexually assaulting minors
- Phiilipines struggle to receive prelatures due to controversies surrounding Opus Dei
- Cubans working with American Catholic Relief Services to rebuild after Hurricane Ian
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In this episode:
- Far right-wing victory in Italy - what does it mean for the Church?
- Pope’s pact with youth for a more just economy
- “The Last Supper” parody in Italy sparks controversy
- Cardinal Joseph Zen is facing a sedition trial in Hong Kong
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In this episode:
- Pope’s Cardinal delivers humanitarian aid under Russian fire in Ukraine
- Chinese President snubs Pope in Kazakhstan
- Russian Metropolitan calls Pope’s comments “not useful”
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In this episode:
- Why is the Pope going to Kazakhstan?
- What the absence of Putin, Patriarch Kirill and President Xi means for the World Congress of Religions
- Is the Pope conflicted about the Russia/Ukraine conflict?
- Reflecting on the end of Queen Elizabeth’s reign and her relationship with the Catholic Church.
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In this episode:
- Conservative cardinal calls for conclave limits
- Milan’s archbishop will not become a cardinal
- A historic friendship: Gorbachev and Pope John Paul II
- Pope dissolves the Order of Malta’s leadership
- Beatification of Pope John Paul I
- Pontifical Academy for Life responds to Twitter trolls
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In this episode:
- Pope creates 20 new cardinals at Consistory
- Rumors that the Pope would resign in L’Aquila are disproven
- Is Francis planning to regulate Benedict’s office?
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In this episode:
- The Pope creates new cardinals
- Disgraced cardinal’s privileges reinstated
- Bishop jailed in Nicaragua by Ortega regime
- The Pope discredits allegations against Cardinal Ouellet
- The Pope and Zelenskyy have their third phone call
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In this episode:
- Vatican finally comes clean on its finances
- Pope meets with Ukraine's Ambassador to the Holy See
- UK court inserts itself into the Vatican financial trial
- Nicaragua and Nigeria stir up trouble for the Vatican
- Pope to attend the Congress of World and Traditional Religions in Kazakhstan
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In this episode:
- A historic meeting of the world’s cardinals
- Pope returns from Canada…was his apology enough?
- Where will the Pope go next?
- Pope admits he needs to slow down for his knee
- Christian persecution rises in Nigeria
- Priest threatened with criminal charges after “aquatic” Mass
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In this episode:
- Holy See reins in Opus Dei and German synod
- Pope’s apology tour in Canada
- Italy at a crossroads after PM’s resignation
- Cardinal bans Latin Mass in DC in all but three parishes
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In this episode:
- The College of Cardinals: All the Pope’s Men?
- Italian political turmoil and the role of the laity
- Pope previews ‘penitential’ pilgrimage to Canada
- The paradox of retired popes
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In this episode:
- Women will now participate in selecting bishops
- Anniversaries of US Capitol riot hearings, Vatican trial
- Brazil’s Cardinal Claudio Hummes dies
- Continued speculation about Pope retiring
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In this episode:
- Pope Francis sits down for wide-ranging interview with Reuters
- Nancy Pelosi receives communion at Papal Mass, despite SF communion ban
- Pope doubles down on Latin Mass in new letter
- Vatican sells controversial property in London at major loss
- Record number of Catholics disaffiliate from the Church in Germany
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In this episode:
- Roe v. Wade overturned
- Vatican opens Jewish archives to public
- Pope confirms trip to visit Canadian indigenous
- Vatican trial reveals 200 witnesses on deck
- Italian footballer wins Verona mayoral race
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In this episode:
- Kiev bishop warns against papal visit
- Bishop Van Looy turns down cardinal nomination
- Papal neglection of southern Italy
- A curious mayoral race shapes up in Italy
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In this episode:
- Pope cancels trips to Congo, South Sudan
- Vatican takes big step toward internal reform with new HR office
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- Human resources is coming to the Vatican
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- Cardinal Becciu claims innocence in Vatican trial
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- Pope’s summer travel schedule hangs in the balance
- Church in Malta takes new approach to secularization
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- Pope Francis using a wheelchair
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- Does having an emeritus pope invite schism?
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- Pope’s on-going health problems
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- Why the future of the Church belongs to the ‘PINS’ nations
- Italy commemorates its liberation from WWII fascism
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- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI turns 95
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- Lack of separation of powers in Vatican
- Paternity leave for Vatican employees
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- War in Ukraine’s potential effects on Catholic/Orthodox relations
- Would the Vatican host negotiations for peace?
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- Pope restructures Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
- Priestly celibacy discussed at symposium in Vatican
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- "Cooks with Collars" in the Diocese of Allentown, PA
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- Cardinal Michael Czerny attends Bishop Remi De Roo’s funeral
- Benedict XVI’s apology falls flat
- Super Bowl MVP Cooper Kupp credits God
- Catholic growth in Africa and Asia
- progress report from the Synod of Bishops
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- Pope meets with Holocaust survivor
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- Vatican Sec. for Relations with States to visit Beirut
- Disney+ looks to expand into Vatican City
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- Limbless Syrian boy starts new life in Italy with family
- Pope installs women in two church ministries
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- Italian archbishop skips line for COVID vaccine
- Polish diocese apologizes after lawyer oversteps
- Pope goes record shopping
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- Cologne archdiocese faces financial audit
- Pope slams “selfish” pet parents
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- Cardinal O'Malley of Boston ‘takes a shot’ at EWTN
- Vatican trial looking now more like a trainwreck
- France ‘fire sale’ of church property to settle abuse claims
- Pope Francis is the ‘dog that doesn’t bark’ in Italian politics
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- Pope calls for diplomacy over arms in Ukraine
- Italian bishop tells children Santa doesn't exist
- Priest shares insights from private moment with Pope
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- Pope pitches dialogue and compassion in Cyprus and Greece
- Vatican “trial of the century” implicates shocking new suspect
- Ex-bishop expecting twins with erotic writer
- The EU’s attempt to cancel Christmas
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- Paris archbishop offers resignation over “ambiguous relationship”
- US Supreme Court to hear landmark abortion case this week
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- Brother of girl missing in Vatican City wants answers
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- Vatican foreign minister meets with Russian PM
- ⅓ of U.S. Catholics don't believe in transubstantiation
- Papal knighthood awarded to two veteran journalists
- New book shares Pope’s favorite recipes
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- Pope appoints first female Secretary General of Vatican City
- Palestinian president meets with Pope
- Biden’s Build Back Better blackballs religious facilities
- Peruvian journalist wins prestigious award for abuse exposé
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- Biden receives Communion in the Pope's diocese
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- Papal trip to Congo? Why?
- President Biden’s upcoming audience with Pope Francis
- Will India’s PM Modi meet the Pope before the G20 Summit?
- Miracle clears way for Pope John Paul I’s beatification
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- Pew reports U.S. Catholics’ view of Pope Francis/Latin Mass
- U.S. Bishops' general assembly to decide on pro-choice politicians receiving the Eucharist
- Pope declares himself “a pest” at fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements
- Vatican corruption trial prosecutors attempt to hit the reset button
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- Is Pope Francis attending COP26?
- Biden picks pro-life Democrat ambassador to Holy See
- 300,000 victims of clerical sexual abuse in France
- Judge’s patience wanes in Vatican corruption trial
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- French church counts 3,000 child abusers
- Argentine Provolo Institute abuse victims attend UN
- Vatican financial reform in light of Becciu trial
- Pope Francis and faith leaders call for net-zero carbon emissions
- 3 Swiss Guards quit over refusal to take COVID vaccine
- How amatriciana can solve church polarization
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- San Marino legalizes abortion in historic referendum
- World Day of Migrants and Refugees 2021
- How Pope Francis could view an EU army
- Whether the Pope would ever visit Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
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- Pope clarifies Church stance on gay marriage
- Pope declares support for COVID vaccines
- Australia’s controversial nuclear sub deal
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- Pope visits Hungary and Slovakia
- Landmark abortion ruling in Mexico
- Italy’s Matteo Salvini meets with the Vatican
- Vatican clarifies Pope’s comments on Jewish law
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- Pope’s Putin/Merkel gaffe
- Pope’s recent comments cause Jewish outcry
- Controversial “Francesco” doc to be screened at Vatican
- Pope takes seeming swipe at Hungarian PM
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- 10 Polish bishops sanctioned by the Holy See
- Pope champions safety of Afghan people
- Impact of new COVID restrictions on public worship
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- Friend of Pope Francis faces trial for abuse
- Vatican advocates patent waiver for Covid vaccines
- Catholic Church in Italy faces loss of tax funds
- Declining influence of religious architecture
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- Woman behind Vatileaks back in the spotlight for Cardinal Becciu trial
- The Pillar informs Vatican and Newark of more priests using hook-up apps
- Pope Francis’ annual “August surprise” to come
- Italy’s golden summer
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- Pope Francis’ Latin Mass restrictions fall out
- Nancy Pelosi and the U.S. Communion war
- Vatican and U.S. look to address the water crisis
- Cardinal Becciu and the on-going Vatican corruption trial
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- Controversy over Italy’s anti-homophobia law
- Pope Francis released from hospital
- Vatican seminary trial and London financial scandal continue
- Italy national football team’s Roberto Mancini’s humility
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- Cardinal Becciu indicted along with 10 others at Vatican trial
- Italy’s UEFA Euro 2020 win and the Catholic connection
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- Italy’s PM Draghi rebukes Vatican
- Biden’s Secretary of State meets Pope
- Ousted Polish archbishop elected mayor of hometown
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- Holy See cautions U.S. bishops against denying communion
- Meeting of Pope Francis and President Biden deferred
- SCOTUS unanimously sides with Catholic adoption agency
- Catholic priests in Umbria leave priesthood to get married
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- Vatican’s financial report card: mixed bag
- Vatican Bank makes progress on transparency
- U.S. and the Holy See diplomatic relations
- Vatican Museums at 500 years old: meet its first Prefect
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- Pakistani Christian couple acquitted of blasphemy charges
- Remains of indigenous children found at former school in Canada
- 100% electric Nissan LEAF joins Vatican fleet
- World’s best sauce: amatriciana
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- Pope updates canon law penal code for greater accountability
- Holy See’s Secretariat for Communications makes a bungle
- Italy’s shared history with the Vatican
- Pope Francis as a “pope of ironies”
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- U.S. Supreme Court abortion case
- Vatican employees protest pay cuts
- Charity fraud in Diocese of Padua raises concerns
- Vatican invites dioceses to take part in synod on synodality
- 6th anniversary of landmark encyclical, Laudato Si
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- Pope raises concern over Italy’s precariously low birth rate
- U.S. climate envoy John Kerry meets with Pope on climate crisis
- The Vatican’s London financial scandal continues
- A reflection on the relationship between faith and food.
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- Vatican backs Biden on COVID vaccine waivers
- Continued debate in U.S. over pro-choice politicians and communion
- The “Cardinal’s Dame” Cecilia Marogna and Cardinal Becciu
- Sr. Maria Laura Mainetti street poses bureaucratic hurdle for locals
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- Pope Francis’ reforms take aim at Cardinals’ privileges
- The Pope’s former hatchet man, Cardinal Becciu
- Why tradition still matters
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- Jane Goodall joins forces with Vatican
- Vatican Conference on Healthcare: Chelsea Clinton, Dr. Fauci
- Pope Francis silent on COVID lockdown protests
- Expectations for Popes in the 21st century
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- Referendum on Vatican II’s theology of priesthood
- Vatican+Italy vs. a London court
- Vatican Observatory launches new platform
- Aldo Moro’s beautification deep freeze
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- Misunderstanding Pope Benedict XVI
- Key U.S. Msgr. dismissed from Vatican post
- Aussie Cardinal Cassidy dies
- Italian priest's death from worry
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- Pope Francis spends Holy Thursday with fired Cardinal
- Pope’s allies in Argentina
- Christian persecution around Easter
- Pope oversees homeless vaccinations at Vatican
- Baseball and Catholicism
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- Pope reflects on gay unions
- UK judge lashes out at Vatican prosecutors
- German synodal controversy
- Philippine church vs. President Duterte
- Cultures and controversy (Italy, Germany, US)
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- Gay unions pronouncement
- Cardinal Sarah exit and visitation of Congregation for Divine Worship
- Vaccines controversy and implications for developing world
- Vatican sex abuse trial
- Enzo Bianchi defies Pope
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In this episode: Pope's Iraq trip, 8 years under Pope Francis.
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- Pope in Iraq
- J&J COVID-19 vaccine controversy
- Assassination of Shahbaz Bhatti
- Cardinal Joseph Tobin’s big new Vatican role
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- Vatican’s ongoing seminary scandal
- Pope’s trip to Iraq next week
- Vatican’s massive budgetary deficit
- Italy’s PM Mario Draghi & Pope’s economic views
- Pope’s in-person visit to holocaust survior Edith Brooke
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- Criminal justice at the Vatican
- New Vatican thriller novel launched
- Vaccine drama at Vatican
- Enzo Bianchi & Vatican clash
- Pope’s trip to Iraq.
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Vatican trial on abuse, Aid to the Church in Need’s founder scandal, Pope moves on women’s rights, Archbishop Ettore Balestrero enters plea bargain, ‘Buffy’ creator’s anti-Catholicism
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- Cardinal Parolin’s daring Cameroon visit
- Denmark's new sermon laws
- Pope’s trip to Iraq
- Mario Draghi’s Jesuit Connection
- Happy, the elephant controversy
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- Vatican Bank former head convicted
- President Biden’s inauguration response
- Pope’s trip to Iraq
- Political woes of Italy’s PM Giuseppe Conte
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- Pope’s Francis and Benedict vaccinated
- Women altar servers and lectors
- Cardinal Pell on Vatican financial reform
- Vatican-AUS money transfer debacle
- Fr. Frank Pavone award rescinded
- Passing of baseball legend Tommy Lasorda
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- Pope’s health
- Vatican financial reforms
- Curious resignation of Belarus’ Archbishop
- Pope’s COVID-19 vaccination plans
- U.S. Capitol Hill revolt
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- Vatican’s money woes
- Council for Inclusive Capitalism with the Vatican
- Conviction of Archbishop Luigi Ventura in France
- Pope’s birthday
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- Pope’s trip to Iraq
- A new effort at Vatican financial reform
- Salvini and a landmark court case for migrants
- Death of soccer legend Paolo Rossi
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- China and the Hong Kong crackdown
- Ethics of the COVID-19 vaccine
- Italy’s cancelling of Christmas controversy
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- U.S. Bishops and Joe Biden
- Supreme Court victory for Diocese of Brooklyn
- Soccer legend Diego Armando Maradona
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- USCCB meeting (focusing on Ex-Cardinal McCarrick and Joe Biden)
- Economy of Francis Summit
- Cardinal Becciu lawsuit
- Pope’s Instagram and the Brazilian model
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- U.S. Election 2020 - the Catholic vote and President-Elect Joe Biden & Pope Francis
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