Inside the Vatican: How the next pope will shape the future

On May 7, 2025, 133 Catholic cardinals will gather in the Sistine Chapel to choose the next pope. It’s a vote that could influence not just the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics, but global politics as ...

John L. Allen Jr., Journalist With Inside Access to the Vatican, Dies at 61

He seemed to know everyone at the Holy See, and it showed in his reporting for the National Catholic Reporter and his website ...
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Inside the Vatican: An Exclusive Walk Through the Pope’s Private Corridors

We crossed an invisible border, a gate without a sign but heavily guarded. Beyond it lay a threshold now out of reach for most. In that instant, we left Rome behind to enter Vatican City. But not the ...
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Pope Leo’s surprise appointment to lead the Vatican bishops’ office

Archbishop Filippo Iannone, named prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops by Pope Leo XIV Sept. 26, 2025, is seen at the Vatican in this file photo from March 14, 2024. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) Pope Leo ...
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Inside the conclave, Part 1: How an American missionary became Pope Leo XIV

The first dinner of the conclave was, in a word, forgettable. "Rather plain," recalled Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey. After hours cloistered inside the Sistine Chapel on May 7, with the ...