Stefano Pitrelli

Italy, Rome, Vatican City

Reporter at The Washington Post

Investigative journalist, reporter in the @washingtonpost's Rome Bureau 🇮🇹🇻🇦🇸🇲, author of #OccultoItalia.

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Pope meets Vance, then releases Easter message decrying ‘logic of fear’

4 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Natalie Allison |Anthony Faiola |Stefano Pitrelli

Pope meets Vance, then releases Easter message decrying ‘logic of fear’ (washingtonpost.com) Pope meets Vance, then releases Easter message decrying ‘logic of fear’ By Natalie Allison; Anthony Faiola; Stefano Pitrelli 2025042009522600 VATICAN CITY — Vice President JD Vance met with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday, a remarkable encounter between the ailing head of the global Catholic Church and a high-profile convert to the faith who has publicly criticized some of the church's social teachings....
Vance meets with pope as Francis’s Easter message decries ‘logic of fear’

4 days ago | flipboard.com | Natalie Allison |Anthony Faiola |Stefano Pitrelli

1 hour agoThis as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with John Lovell, 60, who has traveled to 89 countries and hundreds of cities in his lifetime. Lovell is the president of Travel Leaders Network, a company that sells luxury travel, cruises, and tours. This interview has been edited for length and …
After tensions with pope, Vance, a Catholic convert, to visit Vatican

6 days ago | bostonglobe.com | Anthony Faiola |Natalie Allison |Stefano Pitrelli

VATICAN CITY — After JD Vance invoked a medieval Catholic concept to defend the Trump administration’s migrant crackdowns, Pope Francis responded with a rebuke. Vance, a converted Catholic, then extended something of an olive branch, calling himself a “baby Catholic” who had things to learn while paying homage to the leader of the world’s largest Christian faith.
After tensions with pope, Vance, a Catholic convert, to visit Vatican

6 days ago | washingtonpost.com | Anthony Faiola |Natalie Allison |Stefano Pitrelli

After tensions with pope, Vance, a Catholic convert, to visit Vatican (washingtonpost.com) After tensions with pope, Vance, a Catholic convert, to visit Vatican By Anthony Faiola; Natalie Allison; Stefano Pitrelli 2025041717122800 VATICAN CITY — After JD Vance invoked a medieval Catholic concept to defend the Trump administration's migrant crackdowns, Pope Francis responded with a rebuke.
Pope Francis makes first public appearance, leaves hospital after five weeks

1 month ago | unionleader.com | Anthony Faiola |Stefano Pitrelli

Pope Francis waved, gave a thumbs-up and a gesture of blessing from his hospital balcony to a throng of well-wishers before his discharge and return to the Vatican on Sunday, offering the first live glimpse of the pontiff following his five-week hospitalization. From the fifth-floor of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome, Francis, adorned in gleaming papal white, appeared mostly somber as he briefly greeted the crowd, who chanted his name and cheered.
Pope Francis makes first public appearance, leaves hospital after five weeks

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Anthony Faiola |Stefano Pitrelli

ROME — Pope Francis waved, gave a thumbs-up and a gesture of blessing on the balcony of his Rome medical center to a throng of well-wishers before his hospital discharge and return to the Vatican on Sunday, offering the first live glimpse of the pontiff following his five-week hospitalization. From a fifth-floor window of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, Francis, adorned in gleaming papal white, appeared mostly somber as he briefly greeted a crowd that chanted his name and cheered.
Vatican shares first image of Pope Francis since hospitalization

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Anthony Faiola |Stefano Pitrelli

ROME — In the photo, Pope Francis appears slightly slumped in his wheelchair, adorned in white robes and a purple stole before an altar at the Rome hospital where he has been a patient since Feb. 14. The shot is not head on — perhaps because it remains frowned upon in the Holy See to capture clear images of an ailing pope.
Pope Francis is recovering. It hasn’t stopped talk of a succession

1 month ago | postguam.com | Anthony Faiola |Stefano Pitrelli

VATICAN CITY — Candidates include cardinals from Asia and Africa, though whispers in the hallways of the Holy See also speak of a return to the well of Europe. In a church where hard-line traditionalists have feuded with Pope Francis, some see a need for a peacemaker. Others believe a Vatican in financial crisis requires first and foremost a fundraiser.
Pope Francis is recovering. It hasn’t stopped talk of a succession.

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Anthony Faiola |Stefano Pitrelli

VATICAN CITY — Candidates include cardinals from Asia and Africa, though whispers in the hallways of the Holy See also speak of a return to the well of Europe. In a church where hardline traditionalists have feuded with Pope Francis, some see a need for a peacemaker. Others believe a Vatican in financial crisis requires first and foremost a fundraiser.
Pope Francis is recovering. It hasn’t stopped talk of a succession.

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Anthony Faiola |Stefano Pitrelli

18 hours agoROME (AP) — Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it hard to speak publicly. His condition soon developed into double pneumonia. The 88-year-old pope, who had part of a lung removed as a young man, is overweight and …