As protests for Gaza shut down ports, schools and transit services in Italy this week, Pope Leo spoke again about the Holy Land, on Sunday greeting representatives from various Catholic groups that are “engaged in works of solidarity with the people of the Gaza Strip.” This week on Inside the Vatican, co-hosts and Vatican correspondents Gerard O’Connell and Colleen Dulle discuss Pope Leo’s comments on Gaza both on Sunday and in his first major interview with Crux’s Elise Allen. They analyze Leo’s hesitance to name the conflict a genocide and discuss a Vatican News editorial that laid out the Holy See’s position on peace in the region.

In the second part of the show, the hosts give an update on the Vatican’s “trial of the century,” a sprawling financial trial that opened dramatically this week in the Vatican’s appeals court.

Links from the show:

How Pope Leo plans to govern the church: From Rome to China to Gaza

Why you should pay attention to the Vatican News editorial on Palestine

Defense in Vatican ‘trial of the century’ asks prosecutor to recuse himself for questionable conduct

Pope Leo asks Catholics to pray the rosary for peace every day in October

Credits:

Production, engineering and video editing: Kevin Christopher Robles

Executive producer: Sebastian Gomes

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