Vatican Watch

 David Rodríguez writes for the Fatima Center :  Today we celebrate the 103rd anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun[1] which took place at Fatima, Portugal on October 13, 1917. As most of our readers know, this is the greatest public miracle not to be recounted in Sacred Scripture. The tremendous significance Read more…

Steve Skojek writes for OnePeterFive : Salvatore Natoli is an Italian philosopher, academic, and author of some renown. Today, we’ve learned that he has some noteworthy opinions on the pope’s new encyclical. First, some background: Natoli, born in 1942, is a product of Catholic higher education and a self-described nonbeliever (but perhaps Read more…

Catholic News Agency reports : On Saturday, the ongoing saga of Vatican financial scandal – or reform, if you prefer – continued with the approval of several new changes to Vatican City law on transparency and economic oversight. It also included the announcement that Cardinal Pietro Parolin will no longer Read more…

Jules Gomes reports for ChurchMilitant.com : – A glamorous super-fixer who pocketed over half a million euros from the Vatican for covert “consultancy” says she is being turned into a “parcel bomb” to divert attention from the financial skeletons tumbling from the Vatican’s closet.   Becciu defends himself at a presser Read more…

    INTERVIEW WITH FR. CHARLES MURR, FRIEND OF MOTHER PASCALINA   Fr. Murr, thank you for sitting with Inside the Vatican for this interview about your book The Godmother: Mother Pascalina: A Feminine Tour de Force. Before going into the book, would you mind telling us a little about yourself?  CHARLES THEODORE Read more…

  Joseph Bevan writes for The Remnant :   Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’s latest encyclical containing 43,000 words, has nothing to do with a well-known variety of Italian ice cream, although some loyal Catholics may be forgiven for crediting the traditional Tutti Frutti dessert with more depth, substance and meaning than Read more…

Dorothy Cummings McLean reports for LifeSiteNews :  Pope Francis’ October prayer intention is for more roles of responsibility for lay people, especially women, in the institutions of the Catholic Church. His prayer comes at a time when some Church leaders, especially in the German Church, are advocating for the ordination of Read more…

Damian Thompson writes for The Spectator :  There was a point in the Watergate scandal when revelations came so thick and fast that journalists struggled to keep up with them. And we seem to have reached an equivalent point in respect to the scandals engulfing Pope Francis’s Vatican. Last week Read more…