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Inside The Vatican — 416 episodes
What’s on Pope Leo’s desk this fall
Pope Leo's message for the United States' 250th anniversary
Vatican excommunicates SSPX bishops, priests and others
‘I doubt he will be diplomatic’: What Leo may say to the U.S. July 3
‘Like I’ve rarely seen him’: Pope Leo’s visit to Spain
Anna Rowlands on the ‘Magnifica Humanitas’ debates
EWTN president named head of Vatican communications
Pope Leo's A.I. encyclical: Top takeaways from “Magnifica Humanitas”
Pope Leo's Encyclical: "Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed."
What we know about Pope Leo’s A.I. encyclical
Marco Rubio’s Vatican visit, explained | Inside the Vatican podcast
Deep Dive: An American Pope–How it happened and what it means
‘Speaking fearlessly’: Pope Leo’s Africa Trip
Vatican Diplomacy 101
‘Don’t Take the Bait’: A Roundtable on Trump’s Pope Comments
Pope Leo: Trump’s Iran threat “unacceptable”
Catholic women react to the Vatican’s report on women’s leadership
The inside story of Pope Leo XIV’s election
Pope Leo is using every way possible to advocate peace
Is Iran a ‘just war’? U.S. Cardinals weigh in
Why Pope Leo was ‘economic with words’ on Iran war
SSPX rejects Vatican dialogue offer
Pope Leo’s first Lent begins
The Vatican and SSPX: A Timeline
Minneapolis Bishop on ICE, immigration and Pope Leo
How the Vatican is thinking about Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ invitation
U.S. cardinals speak out against Trump on Greenland, Venezuela and Ukraine
Pope Leo's foreign policy
What we learned from Pope Leo’s first consistory
Pope Leo’s first Christmas address to the Vatican Curia
Vatican hosts prisoners for final Jubilee Year event
The women deacons commission report, explained
Update: Study commission says ‘no’ to women deacons—for now
Inside Pope Leo's first foreign trip
Why is Pope Leo visiting Nicaea?
Synod study groups publish reports
Pope Leo to call world’s cardinals to Rome for meeting
Vatican bans controversial Marian title ‘co-redemptrix’
Pope Leo’s candid Q-and-A on synodality
Inside the first exclusive interview with Pope Leo XIV
Has Pope Leo’s honeymoon ended? U.S. Catholics push back
Pope Leo’s ‘Dilexi Te’ in continuity with Pope Francis
Deep Dive: The Swiss Guard, between tradition and reform
Pope Leo’s surprise appointment to lead the Vatican bishops’ office
The Vatican's 'trial of the century' dramatically re-opens
Pope Leo XIV gives his first interview
The Canonizations of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati
Pope Leo meets James Martin, SJ; discusses LGBT ministry
Who is Pope Leo XIV | Part III: From Peru to the papacy
Who is Pope Leo XIV | Part II: Ministry amid terror in Peru
Who is Pope Leo XIV | Part I: From Chicago’s South Side to Augustinian Priest
After U.S. bombings on Iran, Pope Leo calls for diplomacy over destruction
Pope Leo’s call for peace—and a (video) appearance in Chicago
Roundtable: Pope Leo XIV, AI ethics, sexual abuse crisis reforms, Vatican–China relations
Not Francis 2.0: Cardinals’ first impressions of Pope Leo XIV
Leo XIV greets Vatican employees with humility, warmth—and a €500 bonus
The opening message of Pope Leo XIV’s papacy
What Pope Leo’s first days tell us about his priorities
Pope Leo XIV is an Augustinian friar. Here's what that means
What Pope Leo XIV’s speedy election means for the Catholic Church
Habemus papam! The first American pope is elected
There's only one thing left for Catholics to do: pray.
Black smoke on first vote. But what happens after a pope is elected?
Where the cardinals stand one day before the conclave
What happens inside a conclave? Everything you need to know.
Will the next pope embrace synodality–or reject it?
At the conclave, politics and prayer come together. Is that a problem?
Choosing a pope: What qualities the cardinals will look for in the conclave
Will the next pope be Italian? And the unfinished business of Francis’ papacy
Clarity, Confusion, Unity: Unpacking the conclave’s code words
The Conclave is more than a referendum on Pope Francis
Deep Dive: The Pope Has Died. What Happens Next?
Remembering Francis: A roundtable with Colleen, Gerry and Ricardo
Pope Francis has died at age 88
Deep Dive: The Council of Nicaea and the struggle for a common date of Easter
The Rise and Fall of Theodore McCarrick
Pope Francis says he is ‘healing’ in body and soul
Who is the nurse who made medical decisions for the pope?
Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital tomorrow
Could Pope Francis and King Charles’ meeting actually happen in just a few weeks?
Pope Francis’ recovery and the church’s stance on gender dysphoria
Listen: Pope Francis' audio message from Gemelli Hospital
Pope Francis’ hospitalization: The complex picture, three weeks in
Pope Francis suffers two acute respiratory crises
Pope Francis returns to ‘critical state’ after bronchial spasm
A complete picture of Pope Francis’ ongoing health crisis
Pope Francis receives oxygen, blood transfusion in hospital
Pope Francis hospitalized with double pneumonia
Update: Pope Francis' hospitalization to continue longer than expected
Interview: Bishop Paul Tighe on the Vatican's response to AI
Update: Pope Francis denounces Trump’s mass deportations in letter to U.S. bishops
Could the Catholic date for Easter change soon?
Deep Dive: What happened at the 2024 Synod on Synodality
Pope Francis says mass U.S. deportations would be a "disgrace"
Vatican approves new guidelines for gay seminarians in Italy
Cardinal McElroy to DC and Sister Brambilla to a top spot at the Vatican: what you need to know
The Jubilee year: Its history and what’s planned for 2025
Pope Francis’ birthday, biography and shocking assassination attempt revelation
Pope Francis creates 21 cardinals, calls for an end to U.S. death penalty
Pope Francis explains magisterial weight of synod final document
Pope Francis on Gaza: We must investigate allegations of genocide
The Vatican responds to Donald Trump’s re-election as president
Interview: Michael W. Higgins on how Pope Francis has ‘disrupted’ the church
Key takeaways from the synod with Cardinal Joe Tobin
Catherine Clifford on the Synod’s accomplishments, communications failures and what's next
Father James Martin on making history at the Synod on Synodality
Inside the contentious synod meeting on women deacons
A Methodist’s take on the synod, dialogue and unity between Christian Churches
How authority is being reimagined at the Synod
Interview: Laurence Gien, the abuse survivor and baritone who spoke at the Vatican
New cardinals, a penitential liturgy and women deacons: Week One of the Synod
Your burning Vatican questions answered
Pope Francis criticized in Belgium; members of Peruvian lay group suspended for abuse
Two young, lay synod delegates on what it’s (really) like in the synod hall
The Vatican’s Medjugorje decision, explained
Trump and Harris ‘both against life,’ pope says
With Pope Francis in Timor Leste
‘Inside the Vatican’ live from Jakarta
Deep Dive: The Rise and Fall of Archbishop Viganò
Viganò charged with schism
Pope Francis meets Biden, Zelensky, and talks AI ethics at G7 summit
Pope Francis to meet Joe Biden, Whoopi Goldberg this week
Pope Francis welcomes 50,000 children to the Vatican for first World Children’s Day
Pope Francis' homophobic slur, and the Vatican apology that followed
Update: Pope Francis apologizes for using anti-gay slur
Pope Francis says ‘no’ to women deacons
Jubilee Year 2025: What you need to know
Israeli Jesuit: Antisemitism is real. But not all support for Palestine is antisemitic.
Pope Francis visits Venice Biennale art festival in another papal first
‘Inside the Vatican’ live from the pope’s homeland
After public rift, Francis restores Benedict XVI’s former secretary to Vatican service
What the Vatican said about gender in ‘Dignitas Infinita’
New Vatican document addresses gender theory, surrogacy and more
Deep Dive: Why Catholics are worried about seminaries and young priests
Pope Francis’ Holy Week
Vatican creates study groups on women deacons, role of bishops, seminary reform
11 Years of Pope Francis: What’s next?
Meet the Anglican woman bishop who spoke to Pope Francis about women’s ordination
Two of Rupnik’s alleged victims speak out
Go on retreat with Pope Francis this Lent
Pope Francis and cardinals reconsider women deacons
Pope Francis sends wartime letter to Israeli Jews
Rapid developments in Vatican-China relations: Here’s what you need to know
Why Pope Francis is worried about declining birth rates
Blessings and backlash: A conversation on ‘Fiducia Supplicans’
Pope Francis’ plans for 2024
Cardinal Becciu's embezzlement conviction
Father James Martin, S.J. on Vatican approval of blessings for same-sex couples.
Understanding the pope’s U.S. critics, with Mike Lewis
Did Pope Francis punish Cardinal Burke?
Deep Dive: What happened at the synod in Rome?
Update: Pope Francis cancels Dubai trip
Update: Pope Francis meets with Israeli, Palestinian families
Pope Francis removes U.S. critic Bishop Joseph Strickland
What the Vatican is doing on Israel-Palestine
Does the synod threaten bishops’ authority?
Synod on Synodality Debrief with Father James Martin
Unpacking the synod’s first letter to ‘the people of God’
What Asia is bringing to the Synod on Synodality
A synod insider on evangelization and World Mission Sunday
The evolution of synod secrecy at the Vatican
As discussion turns to women deacons, the synod ‘gets interesting’
Meet the lay woman who led the U.S. synod process
Why Pope Francis is insisting on synod secrecy
Everything you need to know about the Synod on Synodality | Jesuitical
The synod begins—inside and outside the synod hall
Three top moments from Pope Francis’ Marseille trip
Unearthed letter suggests Pius XII knew about the Holocaust
The case against voting at the Synod on Synodality
Pope Francis visits Mongolia, speaks on American critics
Deep Dive: Why Pope Francis is going to Mongolia
World Youth Day recap: A diverse and inclusive event unparalleled on the global stage
In Lisbon, a rejuvenated Pope Francis tells youth the church is for everyone
Deep Dive: Is World Youth Day worth it?
Vatican investigates U.S. bishop critical of Pope Francis
Unpacking the synod’s working document
Introducing "Preach: The Catholic Homilies Podcast"
Rupnik expelled from Jesuits for “obstinate refusal” to obey
How the Vatican talks about the health of the pope
Pope Francis hospitalized for surgery
How should Catholics behave on social media?
The secrets of Fátima and Pope Francis’ mission for peace in Ukraine
President Zelensky meets Pope Francis
What we know about Pope Francis’ secret peace mission to stop the war in Ukraine
Pope Francis hints at secret peace talks between Russia and Ukraine
Pope Francis announces women will have vote at upcoming synod
Pope Francis defends John Paul II against ‘offensive accusations’
China breaches its agreement with the Vatican on appointment of bishops
Pope Francis’ bounce back to ministry for Holy Week
Update: The Vatican repudiates the 15th century 'Doctrine of Discovery'
The Pope’s puffer jacket and how the Vatican is responding to A.I.
Pope Francis admitted to hospital for several days treatment
The Vatican’s mega-trial of the century
Why Nicaragua suspended ties with the Vatican
Deep Dive: After 10 years, Pope Francis remains an enigma
Pope Francis clarifies his vision for the economy in new book
Pope Francis backs Cardinal Roche on restrictions to the Latin Mass
Deep Dive: How saints are made in the Catholic Church
“Hands off Africa!” Pope Francis tells multinational companies exploiting the Congo
Why Pope Francis is visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo this week
Cardinal Müller criticizes Pope Francis in new book
Pope Francis in new interview: “homosexuality is not a crime”
Controversies surrounding two senior Vatican cardinals
Cardinal George Pell’s fraught legacy: Pope Francis critic and financial czar
The funeral of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI dies at 95
Pope Francis announces Benedict XVI is “very ill”
Rupnik was excommunicated for abuse cases
Parsing the facts in the Rupnik case
Prominent Jesuit artist sanctioned over sex abuse
Inside America’s interview with Pope Francis
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The date of Easter could be changing
Fr. James Martin on his meeting with Pope Francis
Prominent French bishop admits to abusing 14-year-old girl
What the synod heard from Catholics worldwide
Vatican Intrigue: A Jesuit’s secret identity and a new Netflix true crime series
The synod will now last four years. Could it be ‘Vatican III’?
Deep Dive: What's happening with the Synod on Synodality?
Interview: What does a U.S. ambassador to the Holy See do?
Synod reports from all over the world are in. What happens next?
Why one Kazakh bishop denounced Pope Francis’ participation in interfaith meeting
Queen Elizabeth II’s connection to five popes
Should we be canonizing recent popes?
Pope Francis didn’t resign this week (though some expected him to)
Deep Dive: Pope Francis visits Canada to apologize to Indigenous peoples
Deep Dive: Women will now have a hand in choosing bishops
The Vatican responds to overturning of Roe v Wade, Sant'Egidio continues peacebuilding in South Sudan
How Catholic marriage prep could be changing
Pope Francis: Don’t reduce the Ukraine war to ‘good guys and bad guys’
Does Pope Francis have plans to resign soon?
Pope Francis appoints new cardinals ‘from the ends of the earth’
Archbishop Cordileone bans Nancy Pelosi from communion. Will Pope Francis intervene?
What Cardinal Zen’s arrest means for the church in China
Fr. James Martin on his interview with Pope Francis
Putin’s “holy war” threatens Christian unity
Why the pope wants to visit Russia before Ukraine
Decoding papal diplomacy with a former ambassador to Russia and the Holy See
The Vatican’s diplomatic tightrope in Ukraine
Pope Francis’ Holy Week plans
Pope Francis apologizes to Indigenous residential school survivors
Roundtable: Indigenous survivors of abuse in Canada's residential schools tell their stories to Pope Francis.
Pope Francis opens top Vatican jobs to laypeople
Could Pope Francis visit Ukraine?
Deep Dive: Should there be a pope emeritus?
Pope Francis visits Russian embassy, calls for end to war
Why Pope Francis hasn’t called out Russia by name
Why Pope Francis is remaking the Vatican’s powerful doctrine office
Is Benedict XVI’s request for forgiveness enough?
Update: Benedict XVI responds to German abuse report
The Vatican’s leading expert in preventing sexual abuse weighs in on Benedict XVI’s predicament
Pope Benedict was accused of mishandling four abuse cases. Here’s what we know.
Deep Dive: The beatification of Rutilio Grande, El Salvador’s first martyr-priest
Update: German abuse report faults Pope Benedict, Cardinal Marx
Pope Francis calls out ‘cancel culture’ in address to ambassadors
Pope Francis' 'action-packed' plans for 2022
Pope Francis' Christmas message: Be humble.
Update: Vatican doubles down on Latin Mass restrictions
The biggest Vatican stories of 2021
Visiting a refugee camp with the pope
Inside the Latin American synodal gathering with Austen Ivereigh
What Rome thought of the USCCB meeting
Pope Francis knights two reporters
Pope Francis thanks author for book on LGBT Catholics and the AIDS crisis
Deep Dive: What you need to know about the Communion Wars in the U.S. Church
Pope Francis’ message to COP26
Bonus: Pope Francis tells President Biden to keep receiving Communion
What happens when a pope meets a president?
Pope Francis’ 9 commandments for a just economy
The ‘Synod on Synodality’ launches in Rome
Vatican hosts unprecedented meeting of faith leaders ahead of COP26
Can women in the Vatican change the church?
Bonus: How Pope Francis reclaimed Slovak history from populists
Pope Francis criticizes EWTN, reveals some people wanted him to die
Gerry asks Pope Francis about the ‘Communion wars’
Pope Francis is still recovering from surgery. Can he handle a papal trip?
Deep Dive: Why Pope Francis restricted the Latin Mass
Pope Francis restricts the pre-Vatican II Mass
Pope Francis recovering in hospital after surgery
Deep Dive: The German Synodal Way, Explained
Why Pope Francis rejected Cardinal Marx's resignation
Vatican cracks down on sexual abuse, women’s ordination and finance scandals
The next Vatican synod is not an event, but a process
If Pope Francis Had a Book Club
Pope Francis calls for peace in the Holy Land
Jesuit Superior General Arturo Sosa on Pope Francis
Vatican steps into debate on Biden receiving communion
Pope Francis strips bishops’ and cardinals’ privileges
Where else will the pope go in 2021?
Deep Dive: How bishops are chosen
The pope and the grand imam walk a ‘thorny path’
Did Pope Francis change his mind about Cardinal Becciu?
Why doesn’t the Vatican push democracy in China?
Bonus: Why is the Vatican restricting the Traditional Latin Mass?
Did Pope Francis distance himself from the CDF document on same-sex unions?
The Vatican says no to blessing gay unions
Inside Pope Francis’ Iraq visit
Deep Dive: Why is Pope Francis visiting Iraq?
Update: Pope accepts Cardinal Sarah’s resignation
Covid spike, rocket attack cast doubt on papal trip
Finally, a woman can vote in a synod
Pope Francis on U.S. church divisions
US Bishops and Vatican clash over inauguration statement
Can defendants get a fair trial in the Vatican?
Pope Francis denounces U.S. Capitol insurrection
Pope Francis takes away top office’s financial power
How 2020 changed the Vatican
Pope Francis’ 2020 Christmas Messages
Two Vatican cardinals have Covid
Can Pope Francis really visit Iraq?
Deep Dive: The Vatican-China Deal
How the Vatican held a consistory like no other
Austen Ivereigh on writing with Pope Francis
Juan Carlos Cruz on the McCarrick Report
Reactions to the McCarrick Report
Deep Dive: The McCarrick Report
The McCarrick Report in 3 minutes
What the Vatican thinks of the U.S. election
Did the pope change church teaching on same-sex unions?
Voting Catholic: What would Pope Francis do?
Pope Francis endorses same-sex civil unions
Why won’t the pope wear a mask?
Gerry and Colleen unpack ‘Fratelli Tutti’
Fratelli Tutti in 5 minutes
Mike Pompeo to visit the Vatican
Pope Francis: ‘God loves your LGBT children as they are’
From Belarus to Black Lives Matter, Pope Francis is listening
Pope Francis’ Covid Catechesis
The Secret Archives of Pope Pius XII
Update: Vatican releases handbook on sex abuse
Is the church getting closer to ordaining women deacons?
Benedict XVI makes surprise trip to Germany
Why is the Vatican silent on Archbishop Viganò?
How Laudato Si’ changed American Catholics’ minds on climate change
Pope Francis: You can’t be racist and call yourself pro-life
Pope Francis takes major step against Vatican corruption
Why the Vatican opposes Israel’s annexation plan
What a Mass in reopened St. Peter’s Basilica looks like
Royal Commission issues findings on Cardinal Pell
The Vatican’s $200m London real estate scandal
World Day of Prayer for end to Covid-19
Christopher Lamb on ‘guerilla attacks’ on Pope Francis
Pope Francis speaks on clash between Italian bishops and government
Vatican's Archbishop Paglia on coronavirus bioethics
Pope Francis assembles COVID-19 task force
How data mapping can help the Vatican fight COVID-19
Pope Francis supports ‘universal basic wage’
Vatican official–Archbishop Arthur Roche–on liturgies during COVID-19
Update: Pope Francis gives English media interview
Cardinal Pell’s conviction was overturned. Now what?
Pope Francis approves new coronavirus Mass prayers
Coronavirus should provoke economic conversion, Vatican leaders say
Pope Francis’ ‘urbi et orbi’ prayer to end coronavirus
Take your sins directly to God, Pope says
Francis walks deserted streets of Rome
Coronavirus case in Vatican City
Pope Francis catches a cold
Pope Francis’ vision for global politics
Deep Dive: Querida Amazonia
Update: “Querida Amazonia” in 3 minutes
‘Three popes’: Where is Archbishop Gänswein?
Will Francis finally visit Argentina?
Pope’s new secretary worked with street children, addicts
Francis appoints woman to top role in Secretariat of State
Did Benedict XVI co-author a new book on priestly celibacy?
What’s fact and what's fiction in ‘The Two Popes’?
Keep your eyes on Vatican-China relations in 2020
Pope Francis’ Christmas address to the Roman Curia
Francis abolishes pontifical secret for abuse cases
Why was Fulton Sheen’s beatification postponed?
Pope Francis wants to add immorality of nukes to Catechism
Introducing PLAGUE: Untold Stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church
Pope Francis' plans for South Sudan, Japan, and Thailand
Update: Vatican investigates ‘opaque’ London real estate deal
Amazon synod proposes married priests, stops short of women deacons
Despite outside distractions, Amazon synod presses on
Amazon synod takes on big ideas in first week
Francis and Benedict stress loyalty in messages to new cardinals
Pope Francis meets James Martin, S.J.
Who is going to the Amazon synod?
Can Pope Francis’ critics swing the next conclave?
Pope Francis: “I am not afraid of schisms”
Pope Francis chooses 13 new cardinals in the ‘Francis mold’
What does the pope do on vacation?
What would married priests in the Amazon region mean for the church?
Unpacking the Vatican’s document on gender identity
Bonus: How this Jesuit leads the Vatican’s fight against sex abuse without losing faith
What did the popes know about McCarrick?
Is the pope a socialist?
Vatican issues new universal laws on sexual abuse
Is the church getting closer to introducing women deacons?
Pope Francis' big reforms to the Roman Curia are finally coming
Pope Benedict breaks his self imposed silence
Two groundbreaking dialogues at the Vatican
Unpacking the pope’s document on young people
Inside Lucetta Scaraffia’s resignation and Pope Francis’ election
How things are changing for women in the Vatican
Bishop accountability and Pope Francis' sixth anniversary
Secret archives, Cardinal Pell and the slow progress of the sex abuse summit
Deliver Us: a new podcast about the sex abuse crisis
First day of sex abuse summit includes some surprises
Will a new book hijack coverage of the sexual abuse summit?
The pope’s historic trip to Abu Dhabi
Pope Francis is open to married priests—in some situations
How World Youth Day is changing the church
Vatican commission's research confirms that women served as deacons for a millennium
Changes and preparations ahead of the summit on sexual abuse
2018 Vatican News Roundup
Did Pope Francis change his mind on gay priests and religious?
Will the Vatican’s sexual abuse summit make a difference?
The Sex Abuse Crisis and Catholic Infighting
Are the bishops stalling or taking the time to get it right?
Who knew what when about former Cardinal McCarrick?
The Synod on Young People is not over
Why might Pope Francis go to North Korea?
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