On this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell look at how Pope Francis' relationship with grassroots activists differs from past popes’.

In addition to the difficulty of changing the attitudes of Catholics accustomed to a “command and control model” of church, the synod faces several logistical challenges.

Division Street ran through Atchison, Kan. It divided the community along racial lines until a local advocacy group, Atchison United, lobbied to change it. But some Catholics in the city resisted the effort.

Why isn’t Morrison typically thought of alongside the usual lineup of Catholic novelists?

With the COP26 conference focused on advancing the goals of the Paris Agreement, Colleen and Gerry ask, can this interreligious document play a similar role to “Laudato Si,” changing the hearts and minds of political leaders from around the world?

A frank conversation on the constructive and destructive power of media in the Catholic Church today and why the goal of Christian discipleship is not about being right—it’s about being holy.