Posted on 03 November 2008
On the eve of the presidential election November 4, Archbishop Raymond Burke, in the Vatican has given an exclusive interview to Andrew Rabel, Australian Inside the Vatican Correspondent, on these and several other issues.
Burke, 60, retired in June as archbishop of…
Posted on 21 July 2008
After week long celebrations, the final Mass of World Youth Day 2008 was celebrated by Pope Benedict in extraordinary fashion with the attendance a little over 400,000 persons at Randwick Racecourse and Centennial Park, which was a splash of color…
Posted on 14 July 2008
by Andrew Rabel
Pope Benedict touched down according to schedule on Shepherd One (the papal Alitalia jet) in slightly overcast conditions at 3 pm on the afternoon of Sunday, 13 July at the Royal Australian Air force Base (RAAF) in Richmond…
Posted on 28 May 2008
In an unprecedented move, Pope Benedict will holiday for three days in Australia before participating in World Youth Day events in Sydney, culminating in a final Mass to be celebrated by him at Randwick Racecourse.
According to Bishop Anthony Fisher OP,…
Posted on 18 April 2008
Pope Benedict spoke calmly, wisely, thoughtfully, during the quiet, festive second day of his April 15-20 visit to America. He dealt at length with the issue of priestly pedophilia, and with the challenge posed by secular culture to Christian faith.
He…
Posted on 26 February 2008
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is a name probably quite familiar to most readers of Inside the Vatican. His famed Life is Worth Living television series (1952-1957), together with his Catholic Hour radio broadcasts on NBC (1930-1952), in addition to his…
Posted on 14 February 2008
One of the stunning victories of the pro-life movement is its ability to win over the hearts, minds and souls of prominent people who become champions of the its cause. For example, in late December, in an interview with the…
Posted on 01 February 2008
[Inside the Vatican] magazine names Sir Martin Gilbert one of its outstanding people of 2007, not because he is a world-acclaimed historian, but because he has always been a fair-minded, conscientious collector of facts. He is a man who presents historical…
Posted on 31 July 2007
Special Note: The following interview with Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, Personal Secretary to Pope Benedict XVI from even before his election to the papacy on April 19, 2005, done by German writer Peter Seewald, appeared last week in the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung (Munich).…