Pope Leo XIV’s health should not be taken “for granted”, a British senior Vatican official told the BBC. Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s foreign minister since 2014, said the news of the Pope’s ill health was “a bit of a game changer”, adding “it’s going to make things a bit different”. The Pope was diagnosed
VATICAN CITY — There’s a telling anecdote from St. John Paul II’s pontificate that illustrates how Pope Leo XIV and his American style of governing have changed the Vatican and the way it handles papal health crises. The Polish pope, 84 at the time, was back at Gemelli hospital battling an acute respiratory infection, breathing
David Willey, who worked as a BBC foreign correspondent for more than half a century, has died aged 93. He reported from Algeria, Vietnam and China, but is best known for his time in Rome as the BBC’s Vatican correspondent, where he covered the papacies of five popes. Willey, widely regarded as one of the
The SSPX was founded in 1970 in opposition to the modernizing reforms carried out by the Roman Catholic Church in the 1960s, in what became known as the Second Vatican Council. The Society is believed to have around 600,000 faithful worldwide. Responding to the Vatican decree, Rita Reid, an SSPX worshiper from Jersey in the
