Last Week in the Church with John Allen

In this episode:

• Pope’s letter to Jews received with silence?
• Historic meeting: Pope and Argentine Pres. Milei
• Remembering a forgotten WWII tragedy
• Vatican target of organized crime?
• Ercolina II makes appearance at Pope’s address

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In this episode:

• Vatican cracks down on liturgical abuse
• Jewish community unhappy with Pope’s letter
• Could the next Pope come from Congo?
• Vatican shirking responsibility for ‘vulnerable adults’?
• ‘Vatican Girl’: brother supplies ‘new’ evidence

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In this episode:

• Did Pope just escalate debates on Fiducia Supplicans?
• Chief Rabbi disappointed by Vatican’s handling of Gaza
• Vatican court’s first conviction for sexual abuse
• ISIS opens fire on Christians in Turkish church

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In this episode:

• Feducia Supplicans: biggest blowback since 1968
• Dutch bishops reply to Pope: a political move?
• Christian genocide in Nigeria: calls to resist
• Pope shakes up Vatican’s communications again

In this episode:

• African bishops challenge Pope Francis
• Parliamentary inquest into ‘Vatican Girl’
• Pope in the polls: what does America think?
• Pope on resigning and future travels

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In this episode:

• Holy Office approved blessing same-sex unions?
• God and orgasms: a book written by Cardinal Fernandez
• Pope calls for global ban on surrogacy
• Musings on Pope’s trip to Mongolia

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In this episode:

• Cardinal adviser of Pope convicted of financial crime
• Did Israel attack only Catholic parish in Gaza?
• Pope chooses burial site: not the Vatican

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In this episode:

• Pope saving strength for Christmas calendar
• Pope changing conclave rules?
• End of Vatican trial: all eyes on Cardinal Becciu
• Pope to visit Milei's Argentina?
• Michael Voris of Church Militant resigns

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In this episode:

• Bronchitis keeping Pope down
• Pope moves on Cardinal Burke
• German Synodal Way: Pope speaks out
• COP28: is climate change a religious problem?
• NGO scandal: dangerous friends of the Pope

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In this episode:

• Pope has inflammation in his lung
• Impossible to ignore Pope’s growing Jewish problem
• Italian femicide epidemic: where’s the Vatican?
• Pentecostal explosion: African bishops are concerned
• Will Pope’s strength return before COP28?

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