In this episode:

• Zelensky’s top man blasts Pope as ‘pro-Russian’
• Anti-fascist graffiti discovered in Vatican
• Pope’s Synod: looming media disaster?
• Heroic Polish family beatified for protecting Jews
• Opus Dei left canonically floundering

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In this episode:

• Highlights of Pope's trip to Mongolia
• Did the Pope spread Russian imperialist propaganda?
• Pope tells Americans to ‘get over it’

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In this episode:

• Mongolia: why is the Pope going?
• Pope’s Synod: are we headed toward schism?
• BRICS: why is the Pope interested?
• Syro-Malabar: papal envoy like a ‘Medieval inquisitor’
• Italians abandoning the Catholic Church?

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In this episode:

• Pope appoints auxiliary bishop as cardinal
• Vatican pays homage to 2 legendary writers
• Anti-mafia saints honored with a parish in Sicily
• Vatican’s scapegoat for corruption dies
• Gänswein is back: problem for the Pope?

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In this episode: 

• Pope’s bombshells at World Youth Day
• Pope: ‘Church isn’t closed-minded on women/LGBTQ+’
• Did Pope mean to ignore Ukraine in Fatima?
• Pope on Vatican III: ‘Church is not ready yet’
• Syro-Malabar Church responds to Crux

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In this episode:

• Pope’s last World Youth Day?
• Pope’s corruption investigators in Peru 
• Key cardinal facing 7 years in jail for corruption?
• Pope calls out Putin on grain shortage
• Code of Camaldoli: history’s greatest dream

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In this episode:

• Pope’s envoy meets with President Biden: failure?
• Corruption in Syro-Malabar Church?
• The Pope who defied the bombs
• Pride parades and World Youth Day

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In this episode:

• Vatican’s sovereignty actually matters?
• Vatican/Israel: mending fences?
• Why should you know Bishop Luigi Bettazzi?
• Vatican trying to broker peace in Armenia?
• Chinese government asserting dominance over Holy See?

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In this episode:

• Pope creates 21 new cardinals: a rundown
• Pope stacks the deck for the next conclave
• Rundown of papal contenders (papabile)
• Consistory: who wasn’t invited to the party?
• Why appoint cardinals who can’t vote?

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In this episode:

• Pope creates 21 new cardinals: a rundown
• Pope stacks the deck for the next conclave
• Rundown of papal contenders (papabile)
• Consistory: who wasn’t invited to the party?
• Why appoint cardinals who can’t vote?