Vatican Corner 10-10-2021
The Swiss Guardâs main duties at the Vatican are providing security services, protecting the Pope and his residence, and providing honor guards at the main entrances, at public audiences, at Masses and at diplomatic receptions. The Guardâs 150 year old barracks is...
Vatican Corner 10-03-2021
Pope Francis has recently made a video that reflects on family life presented by testimonies from families around the world. This video is an accompaniment to his 2016 book AmorisLaetitia (Joy of Love). In Chapter 5 of the book under the title An Expanding...
Vatican Corner 09-26-2021
Pope Francis made his 34th foreign trip on September 12 -15, 2021, traveling to the center of Europe and spending (as planned) just seven hours in Hungary and four days in Slovakia. Sixty percent of Hungaryâs 10 million people are Catholic while Seventy-three percent...
Vatican Corner 09-19-2021
If on September 11, 2001 the four coordinated terrorist attacks by the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda against the United States never happened, would Francis have become the Pope? There is a connection between those terrible events that changed world history and...
Vatican Corner 09-12-2021
Another poor reason people give for not taking the vaccines is concern about side effects. The vaccines can sometimes cause aches, fever and fatigue but only for a short time. In fact such side effects are a sign that the vaccine is getting the immune system ready for...
Vatican Corner 09-05-2021
Some good reasons you might not get inoculated against the pandemic might be if you have an underlying health condition or an allergic history. But there are other reasons and some are very poor and need to be combated in order to bring the pandemic to an end. Needle...
Vatican Corner 08-29-2021
As of this writing on 8/23/2021, there have been reported 213,338,543 cases of the Covid-19 virus worldwide, 4,454,049 deaths and 190,903,844 recovered. On August 18, 2021, in an attempt to make the people around the world feel more confident in the Covid-19 vaccines,...
Vatican Corner 08-22-2021
On August 11, 2021, the actor and Catholic: Jonathan Roumie, who plays Jesus in the TV - Internet series and global phenomenon âThe Chosenâ met Pope Francis at his weekly Wednesday audience at the Vaticanâs Paul VI Hall. Roumie said that it was a lifelong dream of his...
Vatican Corner 08-15-2021
The traditional Latin Mass has a liturgy entirely in Latin, but there are other major differences between the Latin Mass and the Novus Ordo (New Order) Mass which uses the common language of the country, and is the familiar Mass that has been used for the past 50 +...
Vatican Corner 08-08-2021
Latin was the language spoken around the area of Rome called Latium in the 1st century BC. With the power of Rome, Latin became the dominant language in Italy and in the entire Western Roman Empire. After Pentecost, the apostles spread Christianity throughout the...
Vatican Corner 08-01-2021
Twenty-five years after Michelangelo painted his masterpiece the: âCeiling of the Sistine Chapelâ, and after a long, successful period working for the Medici family in Florence, he returned to the Vatican to work. He was welcomed by Pope Clement VII who commissioned...
Vatican Corner 07-25-2021
Shortly before Pope Francisâ planned colon surgery, Salvatore Izzo the director of the Vaticannews website told Francis about his own medical problems, but Francis did not reveal his pending surgery in return. The Vatican and the Pope probably wanted to keep the...