This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell discuss the announcement of several new papal trips, as well as the Society of St. Pius X’s rejection of a Vatican offer for dialogue and what could happen next.
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Highlights from Pope Leo’s hand-picked preacher for Curia’s Lenten retreat
“It is tempting to think we must keep up with the world’s fashions. It is, I’d say, a dubious procedure. The Church, a slow-moving body, will always run the risk of looking and sounding last-season,” Bishop Varden told the pope and cardinals.
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Pope Leo XIV pens book introduction: Peace is a gift—and a responsibility
“Our heart is the most important battlefield,” Pope Leo writes. “It is there that we must learn the bloodless but necessary victory over the impulses of death and the tendencies toward domination: only peaceful hearts can build a world of peace.”
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Pope Leo XIV to embark on 10-day Africa tour and trips to Spain and Monaco
The Vatican said peace and care for the poor will be central themes of the African journey, which will also bring him in the footsteps of St. Augustine.
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Cardinals Müller, Sarah urge SSPX to submit to papal authority
“The only solution possible in conscience before God is for the Society of St. Pius X … to recognize our Holy Father Pope Leo XIV as the legitimate Pope not only in theory but also in practice, and to submit to his teaching authority and his primacy of jurisdiction without preconditions,” wrote Cardinal Gerhard Müller.
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Cardinals Müller, Sarah urge SSPX to submit to papal authority
Two prominent Catholic cardinals have expressed their profound concern and sorrow over a recently announced decision by the Society of St. Pius X—which rejects the authority of the Second Vatican Council—to ordain bishops this summer without papal approval.
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At Curia retreat, Bishop Varden warns of using Gospel ‘as a weapon in culture wars’
The Norwegian Trappist bishop of Trondheim was chosen by Pope Leo XIV to preach at the Lenten retreat in the Pauline Chapel.
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Why did the Vatican decline to join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza?
Declining to join the Board of Peace, Vatican officials might point out that true peace can only be achieved through justice and reconciliation, avoiding the peace of the graveyard. How else to describe Gaza these days?
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SSPX rejects Vatican dialogue, plans to consecrate bishops without papal mandate
The Vatican dicastery had warned that proceeding with the consecrations “would imply a decisive rupture of ecclesial communion (schism) with grave consequences for the Fraternity as a whole.”
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Pope Leo on Ash Wednesday: It’s ‘rare to find adults who repent’
“How rare it is to find adults who repent — individuals, businesses and institutions that admit they have done wrong,” Pope Leo said in his homily in the Basilica of Santa Sabina.