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- Benedict in America: Day 2 - On April 16 (his 81st birthday), on the second day of his visit to America, the Pope greeted US President George W. Bush at White House, and the entire body of US Bishops, about 300 strong, gathered at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. (Newsflash April 17/08)
- Pope Benedict Arrives in America, Greets President Bush - While on the papal plane traveling to America, the Pope answered questions from the reporters traveling with him. Coverage in the first reports of the question-and-answer session focused on the Pope's comments about the sex abuse crisis. (Newsflash April 15/08) Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Ranjith To Leave Vatican? - In Rome in recent days there has been much speculation that Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith, one of the more "tradition-minded" prelates in the Vatican curia, may soon leave Rome to serve in his native Sri Lanka. (Newsflash April 12/08) Donate here. Subscribe here.
- World Mercy Congress 'Catches Fire'. Is hell the weigh station to heaven? - by Dan Valenti, PRNewswire - "In a stunning ecumenical moment at the Catholic Church's first-ever World Congress on Divine Mercy, Russian Orthodox Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev, bishop of Vienna and Austria, told a rapt audience of 8,000 that God's love places no limit on his mercy toward humanity, even to the point of imposing a temporal limit on hell." (Newsflash April 8/08) Donate here. Subscribe here.
- BENEDICT XVI AND GOD - by Emily Rielley
The Pope has a very distinctive theological viewpoint. The editor of the English edition of Communio magazine, a journal of theology, analyzes Benedict’s theological system (Newsflash April 7/08) Donate here. Subscribe here.
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Welcome, Benedict!
(Newsflash April 5/08)
This is the text of the editorial for the April 2008 "Special Issue" of Inside the Vatican previewing the Pope's upcoming April 15-20 trip to America Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Vatican Statement Regarding Jewish People (Newsflash April 4/08) - The Secretariat of State in the Vatican issued this statement clarifying the current status of the relationship between the Catholic Church, and the Jewish people. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Gorbachev Dispels "Closet Christian" Rumors; Says He is Atheist (Newsflash March 25/08) Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev made clear this past weekend that he is an atheist after European news agencies last week claimed that he had confirmed his Christian faith during a visit to the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi in Italy. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Mikhail Gorbachev, Christian - Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Communist leader of the Soviet Union, has acknowledged his Christian faith for the first time, paying a surprise visit to pray at the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi. (Newsflash March 20/08) Donate here. Subscribe here.
- A Child Martyr, A Saintly Bishop, and the Gift of Lent
by Father Bernard O'Connor (Newsflash Feb. 24/08)
This article contains the moving story about a little Chinese girl who loved the Eucharist. What she did is an example for all of us. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Our Number 10 Person of 2007 is Fr. Federico Lombardi, the Pope’s
spokesman. He is also in charge of Vatican
Radio and the Vatican Television
Center. This means that no one has more
of a role than he does in shaping the
world’s perception of what the Holy
Father is saying and doing. His journey is
one in search of clarity, so that the
Church’s message is not distorted or
neglected. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Our Number 9 Person of 2007 is Sr. Eugenia Bonetti, leader of a
very large international movement to help
women who have fallen into a condition
of slavery in the 21st century. With hundreds
of other nuns, Sr. Eugenia’s journey
takes her around the world to organize
ways to help free these women from their
plight. This noble battle deserves the
recognition we give it here. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Our Number 8 Person of 2007 is Dr. Alveda King, the niece of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. She has become one of the leading
pro-life voices in America and the
world today. Her relationship to her uncle
makes her voice all the more authoritative
when she says the unborn also have
human rights. Read about her personal experience with abortion...
- Our Number 7 Person of 2007 is Father Ragheed Ganni, a young
priest who is no longer with us, made a
journey between Iraq and Rome, and then
back to Iraq, and then to God. His murder
this summer made him a symbol of the
courage of all the Christians of Iraq and
of the Middle East, who continue to follow
Jesus Christ even as life for Christians
there grows ever more precarious. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Spaniard is elected new Jesuit Superior-General
- Our Number 6 Person of 2007 is Aung San Suu Kyi. Her journey has been the one
each of us must make when we decide
where we must take a stand, where we
must oppose injustice, where we must bear
persecution rather than accept a wrong.
Her courage in this is an inspiration. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Our Number 5 Person of 2007 is Father Bernardo Cervellera. As perhaps the leading expert on China in Rome today,
his AsiaNews service is a trusted source of
news about the continent where 40% of
the world’s people live. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Our Number 4 Person of 2007 is Brian Boyle Brian is a young man, just past
20, but he has made a journey to the doors
of death and back. After he was hit three
years ago by a truck and almost killed,
doctors told him he would never walk
again. But he not only learned to walk, he
learned to run — and to run marathons! Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Our Number 3 Person of 2007 is Sir Martin Gilbert
This magazine names Sir Martin Gilbert one of its outstanding people of 2007, not because he is a world-acclaimed historian, but because he has always been a fair-minded, conscientious collector of facts. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Our Number 2 Person of 2007 is Italian noblewoman, the Marquise Immacolata Solaro del Borgo, 77, a member of Rome’s historically powerful Colonna family. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Our Number 1 Person of 2007 is Francis Beckwith, a brilliant young American philosopher who has just published a profound and eloquent defense of the Christian teaching in defense of life and in opposition to legalized abortion. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Merry Christmas! (Newsflash Dec. 25/07)
We hope you have enjoyed our publication, and we are making plans now for a still better publication during our upcoming 15th anniversary year. This will be our "Christmas present" to you, if our plans develop as we hope! Donate here. Subscribe here.
- "Come to the Basilica!" (Newsflash Dec. 13/07)
The story of a very special Christmas concert in "Mary's House" -- and why you are invited to come Donate here. Subscribe here.
- The House of Mary (Newsflash Dec. 7/07)
An icon of Mary with bullet holes shot through it is at the center of an extraordinary exhibit was opened on the renewal of Christian faith in Russia since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Read the full text of Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical 'Spe Salvi'...
(Newsflash Nov. 30/07) Donate here. Subscribe here.
- PRESS RELEASE: "THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE 20th CENTURY" (Newsflash Nov. 12/07)
An Exhibit dedicated to the spiritual revival of Russia and to the May 17, 2007 signing of the Re-Unification Act of the Russian Orthodox Churches, December 7-17, 2007, with a concluding Christmas Concert, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- When God is Absent: A Reflection on the "Dark Night" of Mother Teresa (Newsflash Nov. 11/07)
We have chosen to make the drama of Mother Teresa’s "dark night," her sense of being abandoned by God, our cover story [November issue of Inside the Vatican magazine]. Mother Teresa’s "dark night," revealed in her private letters over 50 years, raises the question: What is sanctity? What is holiness? Was Mother Teresa, in the end, not close to God because she felt so strongly that he was not close to her? Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Leaving Russia - "Wake Now! There's a Greater Pleasure!" (Newsflash Nov. 3/07)
Recollections on a week in Russia... and some thoughts on the future Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Zuganov's "Why Not?" - Orthodox Russia
(Newsflash Nov. 1/07)
The leader of Russia's Communist Party today attended the opening of a huge exhibit in Moscow's Expo Center on Orthodoxy in Russia. And he saw no contradiction... Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Putin's "Why?" - Moscow's Field of Martyrs (Newsflash Oct. 31/07)
Russia's president Vladimir Putin yesterday visited a place called Butovo, just outside Moscow, an empty former artillery field where thousands of the victims of the Soviet regime lie buried in common graves. Putin's visit was unprecedented. What does it mean? Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Meeting with Pezzi - Thaw in Moscow? (Newsflash Oct. 30/07)
Following the change here in the Catholic leadership in Moscow, relations between the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches are growing warmer, officials say Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Last Train to Minsk (Newsflash Oct. 29/07)
"And Sister Lucy Told Me..." A conversation with Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, the Catholic archbishop in Moscow for the past 16 years, on the eve of his departure for Belorussia Donate here. Subscribe here.
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Last Mass in Moscow (Newsflash Oct. 28/07)
Today Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, the Catholic archbishop in Moscow for the past 16 years, celebrated his last public Mass before his departure to Minsk, capital of Belarus. Report from Russia Donate here. Subscribe here.
- New Bishop in Moscow
(Newsflash Oct. 27/07)
For the first time since the coming of communism to Russia in 1917, a Catholic bishop has been consecrated on Russian soil Donate here. Subscribe here.
- "I promise you my obedience, my fidelity, my effort in all that you demand of me"
(Newsflash July 30/07)
A very special interview with Pope Benedict XVI's personal secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein. It contains important reflections on the Pope's 2006 Regensburg talk, on the new motu proprio, and on the Pope's day-to-day private life from the person who is closest to him... Donate here. Subscribe here.
- "Fidelity To This Mass Was Never Disobedience" (Newsflash July 13/07)
The head of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X (founded by Archbishop Lefebvre) sees the motu proprio as absolving his group of blame in the break with Rome Donate here. Subscribe here.
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Moscow Reacts
(Newsflash July 11/07)
Metropolitan Kirill comments on the Vatican's controversial document on ecclesiology Donate here. Subscribe here.
- A Bishop Weeps by Orazio La Rocca (Newsflash July 11/07)
"I will obey the Pontiff, but it is a day of grief. The reform is canceled." Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Interview: Institute of Christ the King's Msgr. Schmitz on Summorum Pontificum
by Brian Mershon
(Newsflash July 10/07)
Theologian sees Pope's motu proprio as providing greater access to "the Church's wonderful treasure of liturgical wisdom" Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Pope Benedict Continues His "Benedictine Reform" by Stressing Catholic Identity by Dr. Robert Moynihan (Newsflash July 10/07)
A document published today by the Holy See reaffirms the traditional teaching that the Roman Catholic Church is the one true Church founded by Jesus Christ Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Not a Rejection of the Council - (Newsflash July 8/07)
Interview with the President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos Donate here. Subscribe here.
- The Motu Proprio - (Newsflash July 7/07)
Text of the motu proprio and Dr. Moynihan's analysis. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Motu Proprio To Be Published July 7/07 (Newsflash June 27/07)
Inside the Vatican has learned that Pope Benedict XVI intends to publish his motu proprio on the old Mass on July 7, 2007. Donate here. Subscribe here.
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Benedict and the Mass by Dr. Robert Moynihan
(Newsflash June 26/07)
A reflection on the meaning of the Mass, and a comment on the debate over the restoration of the old liturgy
- Bush and Benedict: First Meeting by Andrea Kirk Assaf (Newsflash June 10/07)
The Pope's chief concern? The survival of the Christian communities of the Middle East Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Bush and Benedict by Serena Sartini (Newsflash June 1/07)
An exclusive interview with the US Ambassador to the Holy See, Francis Rooney Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Zimbabwean Bishop Speaks Against Tyranny by Andrew Rabel (Newsflash May 22/07) - Available in the June-July/07 issue of Inside the Vatican magazine.
The most outspoken critic of the repressive regime of President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe is Archbishop Pius Ncube of the archdiocese of Bulawayo. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- We Will Appreciate Them Forever by Dr. Robert Moynihan (Newsflash May 13/07)
An Italian noblewoman gives a fragment of Our Lady’s robe, and relics of six other saints, to the Russian Orthodox Church in Kazan, Tartarstan, in the heart of Russia. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Distorted Shorthand by Edward Pentin (Newsflash May 12/07)
A leading British historian, Sir Martin Gilbert, who is Jewish, weighs in on the Yad Vashem description of Pope Pius XII’s war-time role, calling it "distorted shorthand." Donate here. Subscribe here.
- Nuncio Battles for Truth by Inside the Vatican Staff (Newsflash May 7/07)
A troublingly inaccurate exhibit at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel about the role of Pope Pius XII and the Catholic Church during Hitler's persecution of the Jews sparks a diplomatic incident. Why? Subscribe
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- Limbo: In or Out? by Andrew Rabel (Newsflash April 27/07)
An exclusive interview with a member of the Pontifical Theological Commission on the controversial topic of original sin, baptism, salvation, and the doctrine of limbo. Subscribe
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- The First Two Years by Wlodzimierz Redzioch (Newsflash April 20/07)
A conversation about Benedict and his pontificate with Cardinal Paul Poupard. Subscribe
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- Signs of a Thaw in the East? by Dr. Robert Moynihan (Newsflash Mar. 29/07)
For more than 900 years, Catholics and Orthodox have been separated. Are there signs that the two great traditions could draw closer together? Subscribe
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- It Is the Holy Father Who Will Decide
by Anthony Valle (Newsflash Feb. 21/07)
All who are interested in the Church’s liturgy are wondering if the Pope will soon issue a motu proprio allowing the celebration of the "Old Mass," and (if he does), what it will say. One of the Vatican’s liturgists sheds light on the Pope’s plan. Subscribe
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- The Christ of Benedict XVI by Dr. Robert Moynihan (Newsflash Feb. 03/07)
The Pope is about to publish a book about Jesus. In so doing, he will share his deepest convictions about Jesus Christ.
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- Top Ten People of 2006: #9 & #10 (Newsflash Jan. 28/07)
- Top Ten People of 2006: #7 & #8 (Newsflash Jan. 27/07)
- Top Ten People of 2006: #5 & #6 (Newsflash Jan. 26/07)
- Top Ten People of 2006: #3 & #4 (Newsflash Jan. 25/07)
- Top Ten People of 2006: #1 & #2 (Newsflash Jan. 24/07)
- The Top Ten People of 2006 by Dr. Robert Moynihan (Newsflash Jan. 23/07)
Each year for the past six years we have asked our staff to nominate the "Top Ten" people of the year. We recognize that it is an impossible endeavor, and one fraught with serious problems. How can any list of ten names be considered even remotely complete, when hundred and thousands and millions of people are living their faith and bearing witness to their convictions in marvelous ways throughout the world? And who are we to make the choice, anyway? Subscribe
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- The Meaning of Christmas by Dr. Robert Moynihan (Newsflash Dec. 22/06)
The Christmas season is always a time of endings and beginnings. The sense of time condensing and then unfolding again is palpable. The Advent season begins, blossoms, and passes by, Christmas comes, with its joy, thick with memories, and then Epiphany, and we go on, leaving the Christmas season behind and entering into the new year. And often this entire season is a whirlwind, filled with preparations of all types. We don’t stop. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- The Christmas Gift by Dr. Robert Moynihan (Newsflash Dec. 19/06)
This Christmas season, I want to thank you so much for all the support many of you have given us at Inside the Vatican over the past years and to ask you to continue with your support so we can fight for the Catholic faith in these difficult times. Because we are an independent publication and do not have backing from a wealthy influential group in or outside the Church, we solely depend on our subscribers, to continue with this magazine and Web site. Donate here. Subscribe here.
- After Istanbul: "Fishers of Men" by Dr. Robert Moynihan: Istanbul, Turkey - Day 6
How can one end a story that has no ending?
Simply by saying that the story continues.
Of course, this story does have a sort of ending, in that Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Mass here in Istanbul this morning, then left Turkey, ending his four-day trip. Subscribe
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- His Lips Moved by Dr. Robert Moynihan: Istanbul, Turkey - Day 5
The whole question of prayer and adoration is a mysterious one. How should men and women worship? Who is worthy of worship, and why? How should men and women pray, and when, and where... and why? Subscribe
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- Witnesses to Peace NEWS BRIEF! by Dr. Robert Moynihan: Istanbul, Turkey - Day 5
Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Benedict XVI walked alongside each other this afternoon amid the sound of church bells after a day of worship, ecumenical dialogue, and fraternal embrace. Subscribe
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Light and Tears: Benedict XVI in Istanbul
by Dr. Robert Moynihan: Istanbul, Turkey - Day 4
Benedict XVI, arriving in Istanbul on the second day of his four-day trip to Turkey, was received with honor by the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch, Bartholomew. Subscribe
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- The "Pearl of Great Price" by Dr. Robert Moynihan: Istanbul, Turkey - Day 3
A visit to the old Greek and Jewish sections of Istanbul -- where Catholic children are sad that because there is not enough room, they will not be able to pray this week with the Pope on Friday. Subscribe
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- And Then There Were Three: The Light of Orthodoxy Flickers in Turkey by Dr. Robert Moynihan: Istanbul, Turkey - Day 2
"The place where we are going is one of the most important places in the world for the Orthodox," explained Josh. "It is the Halki Patriarchal School." Subscribe
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- Benedict at the "Hinge of the World": The Pontiff Heads for Istanbul by Dr. Robert Moynihan - Day 1
At first there was just a carpet of cloud, and in the distance, a blue expanse beyond the clouds, which I took to be the Aegean. Then the plane descended through the clouds and the curving runways of the Istanbul Airport appeared. The plane touched down as lightly as a comforter is spread on a bed and came to a stop. Subscribe
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- Pope Pius XII: "Be proud to be a Jew!" by William Doino
In a remarkable historical find, testimony has emerged revealing that, in 1941, Pope Pius XII received a German Jewish visitor at the Vatican who was seeking help for certain Jews who were being held in an Italian internment camp. After welcoming the young man and promising him help, Pius told him not once but twice -- in emotional language, in front of a large group that included German soldiers -- "Be proud to be a Jew." Subscribe
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- Reaping
the Whirlwind - by Dr. Robert Moynihan (Newsflash
Sept. 19/06) Available in October issue
of Inside the Vatican magazine. Subscribe
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- Interview
with Fr Joseph Fessio, SJ. - by Andrew Rabel
(Newsflash July 16/06) Available in August issue of Inside
the Vatican magazine. Subscribe
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- Orthodoxy,
the Liturgy, and the Crisis of the West - by
Dr. Robert Moynihan (Newsflash April 28/06) Available in
May issue of Inside the Vatican magazine Subscribe
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- Interview
with Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev: The Need to Act
- by Dr. Robert Moynihan (Newsflash April 25/06) Available
in May issue of Inside the Vatican magazine Subscribe
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- Interview
with Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill to
Questions of the Journal Inside the Vatican April
3, 2006 - by Leonid Sevastianov (Newsflash
April 18, 2006) Available in the May issue of Inside
the Vatican magazine Subscribe
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- Prominent
Historian Urges Church: "Speak the Truth in a Time
of Evil" - by William Doino, Jr. (April
8/06) Available in the April issue of Inside the Vatican
magazine. Subscribe here...
- Coming
Soon: Inside The Vatican Speaks with Acclaimed
British Historian Michael Burleigh - Press
Release (March 16/06)
- "Nothing
Extraordinary"? - ITV Article - by Inside
the Vatican staff (Dec. 20/05)
- Last
Year and This Year - ITV's January Editorial:
Man of the Year (Dec. 19/05) - by Dr. Robert Moynihan
- Inside
the Vatican Interview: What Will be the Consequences of
the Synod? (Nov. 12/05)
- New
Hope for the "Old Mass"... or Not?
(Oct. 29/05)
- The
Time Has Come (Oct. 29/05)
- Adoration
Is Awakening (Oct. 20/05)
- A
Miracle for Newman? (Oct. 18/05)
- Help
a Father Save His Unborn Child (June 19/05)
- An
American Assumes Benedict’s Previous Post in the Vatican
& The
Thomas Reese Affair (Two news articles published
together in one newsflash on June 17/05)
- Change
of Course? (April 27/05)
- Thaw
in Moscow? (April 24/05)
- Homily
of His Holiness Benedict XVI during his Installation Mass
(April 24/05)
- The
Real Ratzinger: The Lover of Lovers (April
22/05)
- The
Scallop Shell and the Bear (April 21/05)
- Austrian
Student in Rome Reflects on Election of German-Speaking
Pope (April 21/05)
- Pope
Benedict XVI's First Homily (April 20/05)
- Pope
Benedict XVI Elected on Second Day of Conclave
(April 19/05)
- Homily
at the Mass for the Election of the Roman Pontiff
(April 18/05)
- Into
Silence (April 17/05)
- True
Collegiality is Union with Peter (April 17/05)
- Protocol
and Procedures Involved in the Forthcoming Conclave
(April 16/05)
- Friday
Lunch (April 15/05)
- Rosario's
Choice... (April 14/05)
- New
US Ambassador to the Vatican Is Named: Francis Rooney, Oklahoma
Businessman (April 14/05)
- The
Mood in the Vatican, April 14, 2005 (April
14/05)
- A
Chinese Pope? (April 13/05)
- John
Paul II's Poem Foreshadowing the Conclave (April
13/05)
-
Final Resting Place & the Upcoming Conclave
(April 12/05)
- Saturday,
April 9, 2005 - The Second Day of Mourning for Pope John
Paul II (April 10/05)
- Funeral
Mass of the Roman Pontiff John Paul II
(April 8/05)
- Pope
John Paul II Testament (April 7/05)
-
Status Ecclesiae April 2005 - Totus Tuus: The Source of
John Paul's Greatness (April 7/05)
- A
Bishop According to John Paul's Heart? (April
6/05)
- The
Missing Guest, Conversations with Cardinals
(April 5/05)
- What
Are Some Cardinals Thinking About? (April 4/05)
-
John Paul's Death, Prospects for His Funeral, President
Bush's Presence, and the Looming Conclave (April
3/05)
- An
Innocent Woman Is Dying - The Terri Schiavo
case prompts Vatican outrage. (Mar. 23/05)
- Mel
Gibson Pleads for Terri Schiavo's Life (Mar.
12/05)
- Pope
To Be Fed Intravenously? (Feb. 27/05)
- Weakened
Pope Struggles to Breathe (Feb. 24/.05)
- Fatima's
Sister Lucy Dies at 97 (Feb. 14/05)
- Pope
says, "I will not die before I canonize Pope Pius XII"
(Feb. 13/05)
- Ten
Minutes Later, the Pope Would Have Been Gone (Feb.
5/05)
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