Vatican Insider Podcast
1) INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW
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 an...Show More
2) ST. JOHN CANTIUS, THE STORY OF A CHICAGO PARISH
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...Show More
3) AN INSIDER’S LOOK AT CASTELGANDOLFO (PART II)
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...Show More
4) CANONIZATION WEEKEND IN ROME AND A VISIT TO CASTELGANDOLFO
Welcome to Vatican Insider on a very important weekend for the Catholic Church and especially for young people everywhere! As you surely know, this Sunday, September 7, two young men, Blesseds Carlo A...Show More
5) THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ST. MONICA AND HER CELEBRATED SON, ST. AUGUSTINE
Welcome to Vatican Insider on this final weekend of August. Is summer really almost over! I have yet to go on vacation but that’s coming soon. No interview this weekend, rather, I’ve prepared a Spec...Show More
6) THE CHILDREN’S ROSARY, GROWING AROUND THE WORLD
Welcome to Vatican Insider on this August weekend as summer winds down for so many people and schools are about to reopen or already have reopened in many cases. My guest in the interview segment this...Show More
7) THE LAZY, HAZY DAYS OF AUGUST IN ROME
Welcome to Vatican Insider at this halfway mark of August. August might be the 8th month of the year for most people but for Italians, it is THE month of the year! It is the month of ferragosto – Augu...Show More
8) AN AMERICAN ARTIST, A MOSAIC AND A MILLENNIAL SAINT (Pt 2)
Welcome to Vatican Insider on a quiet August weekend – at least in Italy as August is the month of the so-called Great Exodus when Italians leave big cities, small towns and everywhere in between for ...Show More
9) AN AMERICAN ARTIST, A MOSAIC AND A MILLENNIAL SAINT
Welcome to Vatican Insider on this exciting weekend in Rome when the Jubilee of Youth that started July 28 continues with a vigil Saturday night and a Mass on Sunday on the Tor Vergata esplanade to co...Show More
10) ST. ANNE, MOTHER TO MARY, GRANDMOTHER TO JESUS
Welcome to Vatican Insider on the weekend that precedes the arrival in Rome of half a million youth from over 140 countries to celebrate the weeklong Jubilee of Youth that starts Monday, July 28! Exci...Show More