Pope Francis again called for a stop to the fighting in Israel and Palestine, as he appealed to both sides: “Brothers, stop! Stop!”

In this bonus episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle interviews Inés San Martín, the former Rome bureau chief of Crux and current vice president of marketing and communications at the Vatican's U.S. missionary fundraising organ.

Argentina's leader presidential candidate Javier Milei, a self-described anarcho-capitalist, has derided Pope Francis as “a malignant presence on earth,” denounced him as a “filthy leftist” and charged that the pope had “an affinity for murderous communists.”

A Reflection for the Optional Memorial of St. Paul of the Cross, priest, by Colleen Dulle

You either control the narrative, or the narrative is controlled by anyone who grabs the media’s attention.

In “The Great Divorce,” C.S. Lewis paints a rich, multifaceted picture of the afterlife, one that could teach Christians quite a bit about life on Earth today.

In this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle interviews John Thavis, author of “The Vatican Diaries” and “The Vatican Prophecies,” about how synods and their guidelines around secrecy have evolved over time.

As an American, as a young person and as someone who never showed their work during math class, I am naturally inclined to care more about results than the process that produces them.

“Synodality helps us a lot because it is the communities that tell us how to be a church, rather than a bishop telling the people how to be church,” Cardinal Leonardo Ulrich Steiner of Manaus, Brazil, said.

Two Vatican trials are coming to a head this week and both underscore Pope Francis’ power as an absolute monarch and the legal, financial and reputational problems that can arise when he wields it.