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2 months ago | 
insidethevatican.com | Hannah Brockhaus |Robert Moynihan
Pope Francis at the conclusion of the Jubilee Mass for the Armed Forces, Police and Security Personnel (VATICAN MEDIA Divisione Foto)The Pope Has BronchitisPope Francis, 88, has fallen sick with bronchitis (see article below), curtailing his meeting schedule in Rome.
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
insidethevatican.com | Edward Pentin |Robert Moynihan
Pope Francis greets Bishop Athanasius Schneider on January 20, 2025 at the Vatican (photo: Mario Tomassetti / Vatican Media)For our #5 Person of the Year 2024, we chose Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
insidethevatican.com | Robert Moynihan
A few preliminary thoughts as the year 2025 begins. ***The Church we love faces a profound fracture. If we wish to preserve and defend the “one, holy, catholic and apostolic” Church, our work lies before us. And each day the danger increases. The devil stalks us, as the prayer of Pope Leo XIII teaches us. Our situation is tragic, and much that is good and true and beautiful may be lost.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
insidethevatican.com | Robert Moynihan
As we begin a new year, our Lead story asks the question: What could the Trump presidential victory mean, not only for the US but for Catholics and the Church?
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
insidethevatican.com | Robert Moynihan
It is a lovely day in Rome, sunny, cold but not too cold. Tonight St. Peter’s Basilica will be open at 9 p.m. for an hour of adoration. The presence of the Lord is what this season, this Church, this basilica, this letter, is all about. The divinity of the Lord, brings God’s holiness into the heart of this reality. It did so on the first Christmas, which we recall in four days.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
insidethevatican.com | Robert Moynihan
“Take the Ratzinger book on the liturgy. It will be one less item to sort through when the time comes…” —My father to me, when I visited with him in late 2016 or early 2017, when he was 90. He died three years later, on March 28, 2020 at the age of 93. I took the book with me, and still have it today (link)I begin again after seven years, because today I found something I had been looking for for these past seven years.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
insidethevatican.com | Robert Moynihan
Not a single seat was empty this evening, Saturday, December 7, in a packed Paul VI Audience Hall inside Vatican City. Here, composer Hans Zimmer, 67, playing the keyboard on the far left of the stage, joined by cellist Tina Guo, 39, in a red dress in the very center of the stage, and with a large orchestra and choir, played themes from the many film scores Zimmer has composed over the years, and other selected pieces as well.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
insidethevatican.com | Robert Moynihan
Composer Hans Zimmer, 67, outside of St. Peter’s Square today in Rome, just as the Christmas tree in the square is being decorated.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
insidethevatican.com | Robert Moynihan
Pope Benedict XVI. He lived from April 16, 1927 until December 31, 2022. He died at the age of 95. He was Pope from April 19, 2005, when he succeeded John Paul II, until February 28, 2013, when he resigned the papal office, then “Pope Emeritus” for about 9 years and 10 monthsSince today is “Giving Tuesday” in America, I would like to ask readers to consider making a gift to support these letters and the rest of the work that we do.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
insidethevatican.com | Robert Moynihan
Pope Benedict XVI. He lived from April 16, 1927 until December 31, 2022. He died at the age of 95. He was Pope from April 19, 2005, when he succeeded John Paul II, until February 28, 2013, when he resigned the papal office, then “Pope Emeritus” for about 9 years and 10 monthsA funeral Mass today in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere — the oldest church in the world dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
