Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchVatican Intrigue: A Jesuit’s secret identity and a new Netflix true crime series
Host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell dig into three eye-catching Vatican stories this week: First up, Vatican Secret…
3 years, 11 months ago
The synod will now last four years. Could it be ‘Vatican III’?
On Sunday, Pope Francis announced that the Synod on Synodality will be extended. Instead of one final meeting in the Vatican in October 2023, there w…
3 years, 11 months ago
Deep Dive: What's happening with the Synod on Synodality?
Cathy Harmon-Christian’s SUV has been getting a lot of attention lately. Last year, after a nun and priest friend asked her to work full-time holding…
3 years, 11 months ago
Interview: What does a U.S. ambassador to the Holy See do?
Pope Francis dedicated his entire Angelus address this past Sunday, Oct. 2, to denouncing the war in Ukraine. Recent weeks have seen the Ukrainians p…
3 years, 11 months ago
Synod reports from all over the world are in. What happens next?
With reports from at least 112 of the 114 bishops’ conferences around the world, the Synod on Synodality has entered its next phase as 35 laypeople, …
4 years ago
Why one Kazakh bishop denounced Pope Francis’ participation in interfaith meeting
Pope Francis was in Khazakstan last week for a major Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions—although his visit was overshadowed in th…
4 years ago
Queen Elizabeth II’s connection to five popes
Queen Elizabeth II died last week, Sept. 8, after 70 years on the throne. She was 96 and was England’s longest-reigning monarch. And while most peopl…
4 years ago
Should we be canonizing recent popes?
Pope Francis called all the world’s cardinals to the Vatican to discuss the reform of Roman offices, called dicasteries. The meeting follows the rele…
4 years ago
Pope Francis didn’t resign this week (though some expected him to)
“Inside the Vatican” is back from summer break this week, just as the Vatican wraps up an unusually jam-packed late August. On August 27, Pope Franci…
4 years, 1 month ago
Deep Dive: Pope Francis visits Canada to apologize to Indigenous peoples
Pope Francis is about to make a historic visit to Canada, where he will apologize for the harm inflicted on Indigenous peoples through the earliest c…
4 years, 2 months ago