Why Cardinal Sandri could become Pope

The 69-year-old cardinal was born in Buenos Aires in November 1943, and is earmarked as the possible first Latin American pope. But wait: h...

My visit to the Vatican to interview the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "Everyone who is Catholic must ask themselves if they are cherry-picking points from the Church’s teachings for the sake of supporting an ideology."

The scariest thing about visiting the office of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was getting past the Swiss Guard. It was a ...

Will There Be Another Vatican BLOGFEST? The man who masterminded the Blogfest at The Vatican Part Four

In the days immediately after the Blogmeet there were 17 million pages devoted to it on the internet. According to Rouse, one of the best fr...

Why Pope Benedict did not come to the Blogfest. The man who masterminded the Blogfest at The Vatican Part Three

The biggest challenge in organising the Blogmeet was that “it was hard to keep it focused. It was a meeting between the Vatican, between t...

How the Vatican decided which bloggers would be invited... The man who masterminded the Blogfest at The Vatican Part Two

The three key Blogmeet organisers were Rouse, Mgr Paul Tighe, secretary of the Pontifical Council for Social Communication, and Fr Ariel Ber...

The man who masterminded the Blogfest at The Vatican Part One

Richard Rouse is a dynamic English official at the Vatican Pontifical Council for Culture. He many accomplishments to his name but has manag...

Paul VI said of Padre Pio that he “bore the wounds of our Lord”

From his youth, his health was not very robust, and especially in the last years of his life it declined rapidly. Sister Death took him well...

Vatican: Artists to honor Pope's 60th ordination anniversary with 60 works

The Vatican will celebrate Pope Benedict’s 60th anniversary of priestly ordination with a month-long exhibition featuring 60 artists from ar...

Vatican Blogmeet Memoir Part One; Ex-con gets into the Vatican

It’s a sunlit, sizzling hot day in Rome, and the streets around the Vatican throng with John Paul II disciples; their faces are bathed in ...

Make way for news.va! The Catholic Google?

Thaddeus Jones has just been giving us a preview of ‘news.va’ – an exciting web venture that has the aims of gathering info automatically,...

Bloggers! The Vatican would like to see your site!

I have requested an invite to the meeting for bloggers, and am praying to get a place. Heaven is being stormed today - a rosary, candles wi...

Wilde Mary...

For my pro-life posts and anti-abortion newspaper articles I got: Stephen King. I’d like to believe that means the articles are more Shawsh...