When I arrived on the Vatican beat more than 25 years ago, a bitter cross controversy at Auschwitz and tensions over the passion play in Oberammergau both were making global headlines. It was shortly before the release of John Cornwall’s Hitler’s Pope, reviving debates over Pius XII’s alleged “silence” on the Holocaust, as well as Pope…
The Archdioceses of Armagh and Dublin have issued their respective response to the Vatican document, Fiducia Supplicans, with Archbishop of Dublin Dermot Farrell describing the document as a tool which will “help us minister to our brothers and sisters who long for the closeness and compassion of God”. Announced on December 18 of last year,…
John L. Allen Jr.
Brandon Scott