Colleen and Gerry examine the pope’s rhetorical shift from describing a third world war fought “piecemeal” to a “declared” world war.
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Podcast: How Putin’s ‘holy war’ threatens Pope Francis’ work for Christian unity
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell and host Colleen Dulle discuss the religious implications of the Russia-Ukraine war and how it threatens work towards Christian unity.
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
How Jesuit Walter Ciszek found God in the Russian gulag
One of the most fascinating stories of the 20th century belongs to Walter Ciszek, S.J., an American Jesuit priest who spent two decades laboring in the Soviet Union after he was accused of being a Vatican spy.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What critics of Pope Francis’ NATO comments don’t understand about Vatican diplomacy
Some observers fail to realize that Vatican diplomacy must be tuned to the church’s centuries-old mission of loving our enemies.
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Podcast: Pope Francis is ‘pessimistic’ about the possibility of peace in Ukraine
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell and host Colleen Dulle discuss why Pope Francis is pessimistic about peace talks with Russia.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis: ‘I am ready to go to Moscow’ to end the war in Ukraine
Pope Francis is willing to help negotiate an end to the Russian war against Ukraine, but warned that religious leaders “are not clerics of the state.”
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Former ambassador to the Holy See and Russia on Pope Francis’ Ukraine dilemma
This week on Inside The Vatican, Ricardo da Silva, S.J. interviews Anne Leahy, who once served as the Canadian ambassador to Russia and later to the Holy See, to understand Pope Francis and the Vatican in its relations with Russia.
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Podcast: If Russia isn’t listening, do Pope Francis’ calls for peace in Ukraine matter?
In this episode of “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell examine what diplomatic and religious relationships the Vatican has to keep in mind as it weighs its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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A Ukrainian and a Russian were invited to lead the Vatican’s Via Crucis. Ukraine wants Pope Francis to reconsider.
The head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church asked Pope Francis to scrap plans to have a Ukrainian woman and a Russian woman carry the cross together during the pope’s Way of the Cross service.
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Thomas Merton can still teach us a lot about nuclear war
Faced with anxieties we have not experienced since the Cold War, perhaps it is time to return to Thomas Merton’s writings on nuclear weapons and the Christian responsibility to advocate for peace in a nuclear age.