Episodios

  • A VISIT TO THE GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION PT2

    A VISIT TO THE GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION PT2
    Nov 2 2025
    Stay tuned for Part II of my conversation with Jesuit Fr. Thomas Merkel, president of the D.C.-based Gregorian University Foundation. This was established in 1972 with the aim of supporting Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University through raising much-­needed funds for scholarships, academic chairs, libraries and capital improvements.
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  • A VISIT TO THE GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION PT1

    A VISIT TO THE GREGORIAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION PT1
    Oct 26 2025
    Some big news stories this week to tell you about but now I want you to know that my guest in the interview segment is Fr. Thomas Merkel, president of the D.C.-based Gregorian University Foundation that was instituted in 1972 with the mission to support the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, through raising much­-needed funds for scholarships, academic chairs, libraries and capital improvements.
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  • THE LIFE OF A JUBILEE YEAR VOLUNTEER

    THE LIFE OF A JUBILEE YEAR VOLUNTEER
    Oct 19 2025
    Welcome to Vatican Insider on this third weekend of October. Lots of events this week at the Vatican as you will hear in the opening news segment. After the news highlights, you’ll want to stay tuned for my weekly interview segment when my guest is Lisa Petrocelli, an American who spent a week in Rome as a volunteer for the Jubilee Year of Hope.
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  • POPE LEO’S APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION DILEXI TE

    POPE LEO’S APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION DILEXI TE
    Oct 12 2025
    This week, instead of an interview segment, I’ve prepared a Special on Pope Leo’s first magisterial document, his Apostolic Exhortation “Dilexi te – I have Loved You – that was presented Thursday, October 9 in the Vatican. Join us!
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  • DEACON ANDY AND A MINISTRY TO NATIVE AMERICANS

    DEACON ANDY AND A MINISTRY TO NATIVE AMERICANS
    Oct 5 2025
    I do have a very uplifting story in the interview segment of VI and my conversation with Deacon Andy Orosco of the diocese of San Bernardino in California. Andy is a Native American who works in the Native American Ministry in the diocese and tells a fascinating story about his ministry and his people. You will also hear from his wife Roseanne as both were in Rome recently for the Jubilee of Deacons. (Originally aired on 3/14/25)
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  • INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW

    INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW
    Sep 28 2025
    I’m calling this segment INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW because I’m going to bring you some trivia, that is, some little known and often unusual facts about the Vatican – some fun stories about bells and flags and basilica floors. It might be trivia but it is not trivial! (Originally aired on 7/20/18)
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  • ST. JOHN CANTIUS, THE STORY OF A CHICAGO PARISH

    ST. JOHN CANTIUS, THE STORY OF A CHICAGO PARISH
    Sep 21 2025
    My guest this week in the interview segment of “Vatican Insider” is a longtime friend, Fr. Frank Phillips, former pastor for 30 years at Chicago’s well-known St. John Cantius Church. After a number of years, we met serendipitously over my vacation at a pre-investiture ceremony for the Order of the Holy Sepulchre that was held at St. John Cantius. (Originally aired on 10/14/22)
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  • AN INSIDER’S LOOK AT CASTELGANDOLFO (PART II)

    AN INSIDER’S LOOK AT CASTELGANDOLFO (PART II)
    Sep 14 2025
    Welcome to Vatican Insider on this mid-September weekend. I hope the weather is as beautiful where you are as it is here in Rome! For the interview segment this weekend, please join me for Part II of a Special on the papal residence of Castelgandolfo and its centuries-long history where I look at the main palace and other buildings, the extensive land and magnificent gardens and the papal farm that actually occupies most of the land.
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