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Vatican’s got skin in the game in Italy’s current political drama
Jan 19, 2021 editor
Pope Francis meets with Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte, left, at the Vatican, Monday, March 30, 2020. (Credit: Vatican News via AP.)
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte faces a crucial no-confidence vote in the senate today, and the Vatican will be watching with interest.
News Analysis
ROME – For Americans, tomorrow is Inauguration Day. Political change is in the air here in Italy too, though not quite in the same way – once again an Italian government may be about to fall, for the 67
th time since the dawn of the Italian Republic in 1946 and a staggering 17
Vatican City, Jun 28, 2017 / 08:05 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday, Pope Francis created five new cardinals, encouraging them to walk with Jesus, keeping their eyes fixed securely on the cross and on the realities of the world, not becoming distracted by prestige or honor.
“I speak above all to you, dear new Cardinals. Jesus ‘is walking ahead of you,’ and he asks you to follow him resolutely on his way. He calls you to look at reality, not to let yourselves be distracted by other interests or prospects,” the Pope said June 28.
“He has not called you to become ‘princes’ of the Church, to ‘sit at his right or at his left.’ He calls you to serve like him and with him.”
By Andrea Gagliarducci
A new book provides further information from the archives of Venerable Pius XII, including the Vatican’s attempts to oppose the actions of Nazi Germany through diplomacy during World War II.
“One day the documents of the Holy See will become public. And then, the pressures of the moment having subsided, it will be seen that the Holy See has followed a provident, and at the same time prudent, line of action,” said Cardinal Giuseppe Maglione, the secretary of state, in an emergency meeting with Pope Pius XII in 1944.
Vatican archivist Johan Ickx tells the story of the meeting in his latest book, soon to be published in English, “