A Reflection for Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Advent, by Colleen Dulle
Colleen Dulle
Colleen Dulle is the Vatican Correspondent at America and co-hosts the "Inside the Vatican" podcast. She is the author of Struck Down, Not Destroyed: Keeping the Faith as a Vatican Reporter (Image, 2025).
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What Judgment Day can teach us about hope
A Reflection for Friday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Colleen Dulle
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Cardinal Ricard confessed to abusing a 14-year-old. What we know and what the Vatican will do next
The former conference president Cardinal Jean-Pierre Ricard admitted he behaved in a “reprehensible way with a 14-year-old girl” 35 years ago. Here’s where his case stands at the Vatican.
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Spiritual battles—and the ultimate defense that is virtue
A Reflection for Thursday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time, by Colleen Dulle
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‘Vatican Girl’: Netflix’s true-crime documentary on the Holy See’s 40-year-old missing person mystery
A new true-crime documentary series on Netflix, “Vatican Girl,” tells the story of the 1983 disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a 15-year-old girl who is still the only Vatican citizen considered missing.
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Deep dive: The ‘Synod on Synodality’ — What’s done and what comes next?
For our latest “Inside the Vatican” deep dive, we interviewed top officials in the Vatican’s synod office and ordinary Catholics holding listening sessions around the world—including someone who is more critical of the synod.
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Interview: U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican on Joe Biden and Pope Francis’ relationship, Ukraine and Catholic polarization
In an exclusive interview, Joe Donnelly, U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, discusses his diplomatic work with the Vatican—including on the war in Ukraine—with America associate editor Colleen Dulle.
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On poetry, angels and mystical visions
A Reflection for the Feast of Sts. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, archangels, by Colleen Dulle
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Mary Magdalene’s friendship with Jesus
A Reflection for Friday of the Twenty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time, by Colleen Dulle
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Review: When popes play peacemaker
Vatican diplomacy has as its primary goal peace through dialogue, which runs counter to the complex dance of pressures and negotiations that nation-states use to jockey for power on the global stage.