On this week’s episode of “Inside the Vatican,” America’s veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell and host Colleen Dulle dig into what we know about each upcoming papal trip and what is motivating the pope to go.
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Podcast: Inside the top secret process of appointing a Catholic bishop
Working from a copy of the new survey that he obtained, Gerard O’Connell summarizes some of the questions that the Vatican is now asking about possible bishops.
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Podcast: The pope and the grand imam walk a ‘thorny path’ in Catholic-Muslim relations
On this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” America’s Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell walks listeners through the story of how the pope and the grand imam rebuilt the once-icy relationship between the Vatican and the top Sunni institute, Al-Azhar University.
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Podcast: Pope Francis is not changing his mind about Cardinal Becciu
Pope Francis celebrated a private Holy Thursday Mass at the apartment of Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the high-ranking prelate whose resignation Pope Francis ordered last September.
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Podcast: Why the Vatican doesn’t push democracy in China
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell discuss Gerry’s wide-ranging interview with Vatican Secretary for Relations with States, Archbishop Paul Gallagher.
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Podcast: Did Pope Francis distance himself from the CDF document on same-sex unions?
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell and host Colleen Dulle discuss the pope’s comments and why Vaticanistas use anonymous sources so often.
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Podcast: The Vatican statement on gay unions may have been rushed past the pope
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” America’s Rome correspondent Gerard O’Connell reveals that the document was drafted by a much smaller group of people than would ordinarily be involved in writing this type of statement and that Pope Francis reviewed it just before his Iraq trip.
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Podcast: In Iraq with Pope Francis
Fresh off the papal visit to Iraq, Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell joins host Colleen Dulle on “Inside the Vatican” to discuss what it was like to travel with the pope on his riskiest trip yet.
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Nobody at the Vatican wants Pope Francis to go to Iraq right now. Why is he so set on going?
What is driving Pope Francis to enter a war zone, during a global pandemic?
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Podcast: Covid spike and rocket attack complicate Pope Francis’ Iraq trip
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell look at the challenges facing Pope Francis’ scheduled trip to Iraq.