How the Vatican is thinking about Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ invitation
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Junno Arocho Esteves, international correspondent for OSV News, joins host Colleen Dulle to explain what factors the Vatican is likely weighing in its decision-makin...
30 Jan 39min
U.S. cardinals speak out against Trump on Greenland, Venezuela and Ukraine
On “Inside the Vatican,” America Chief Correspondent Kevin Clarke joins Colleen Dulle to discuss the cardinals’ statement, analyzing its content, precedents, and potential impact on the U.S. Catholic ...
23 Jan 27min
Pope Leo's foreign policy
Pope Leo XIV met with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado this week, only the latest in a monthslong series of statements and meetings that have shown the Vatican repeatedly pushing for ...
16 Jan 46min
What we learned from Pope Leo’s first consistory
Few events in Pope Leo’s young papacy have built as much anticipation as his first consistory. Summoning the cardinals of the Catholic Church to Rome for two intense days of meetings, the pope laid ou...
9 Jan 42min
Pope Leo’s first Christmas address to the Vatican Curia
The pope’s annual Christmas address to the Roman Curia was once a run-of-the-mill affair, but in 2005, the year he was elected pope, Benedict XVI used the speech to lay out his decisive vision for the...
23 Dec 202540min
Vatican hosts prisoners for final Jubilee Year event
The Jubilee Year is drawing to a close and Christmas is drawing near. This week on “Inside the Vatican,” host Colleen Dulle and veteran Vatican correspondent Gerard O’Connell cover several important a...
18 Dec 202535min
The women deacons commission report, explained
On Dec. 4, the final report from the Vatican’s second study commission on women deacons was published, saying that women can’t be ordained to the diaconate “as understood as a degree of holy orders,” ...
11 Dec 202539min
Update: Study commission says ‘no’ to women deacons—for now
Today, the Vatican published the results of its second study commission on women deacons. It said that women cannot be admitted to the diaconate “as understood as a degree of holy orders.” However, i...
4 Dec 20251min
