Every day, 13 Christians are killed for reasons tied to their faith; 12 churches or buildings, like schools or hospitals, are attacked or closed; 11 Christians are arrested and incarcerated without trial; and four Christians are kidnapped. Anti-Christian persecution in the world
Last January, Pope Francis appointed Dr. Francesca Di Giovanni as undersecretary for the multilateral sector of the Vatican Secretariat of State’s Section for Relations with States, making her the first woman to hold a managerial role in the Secretariat of State. As
As families contemplate what dishes to prepare this holiday season, one can consult David Geisser, a former Swiss Guard who, when serving as a papal protector, cooked for recent pontiffs and heads of state, including U.S. presidents, Queen Elizabeth II and celebrities,
This year, the Vatican Inspectorate of Public Security celebrated the 75th anniversary of its founding. Technically Italian police, these authorities are responsible for all security of St. Peter’s Square and for entering the small sovereign state located in Italian borders. In an
On September fourth, Sister Helen Alford was appointed as a new member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Sister Alford is a Dominican and the vice-rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, also known as the Angelicum, in Rome.
In an interview with Our Sunday Visitor, Father Augusto Zampini, the Vatican’s adjunct secretary for its Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, who was appointed with a leading role in the Vatican’s new COVID-19 Commission, says he has a message for the
In a new book, “Vatican Secret Archives: Unknown Pages of Church History,” researchers go to the source to investigate common misconceptions of the Catholic Church throughout the ages — including the history of the Knights Templar, the trial of Galileo, the Crusades
In an interview with Our Sunday Visitor, Italian journalist Stefania Falasca, who is vice president of the new Pope John Paul I Vatican Foundation and vice postulator of the late pope’s canonization cause, explains that while his pontificate was short, it nonetheless
In an interview with Our Sunday Visitor, Dr. Brian Kane, senior ethics director of the Catholic Health Association in the United States, discusses the role of Catholic health care workers during the current pandemic and how they are making critical decisions based
Since March 2, all the documents in the Vatican archives relating to the pontificate of Pope Pius XII are open for consultation by scholars who wish to study the history of the Church and the Vatican in that period. However, the Archives