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The «dolce far niente», Angelus in Castelgandolfo, the Vatican does not want an isolated Russia, the pontifical state's FBI, John Paul I in Romania, relations between the Holy See and the Holy Land.

August 31, 2026 | SPECOLA

Empezamos semana y terminamos mes. En Roma seguimos con noches muy calurosas y días muy de agosto. Los dicasterios se van desperezando y el pontificado del Papa Francisco ya queda muy lejos. Muchos ca…

Leo XIV and Castelgandolfo, "Mutua Concordia", Communion and Liberation, another bishop of the pachamama, Norwegian Lutherans, the obsession with consensus, the capital sins, the guillotine returns, freedom and conscience, street people in Assisi.

August 30, 2026

The Pope and the Virgin of the Lake, human intelligence, Iberdrola and Bernard Arnault, the rainbow ambassador in the Vatican, shapes and the baseball, Paraguay, May 13, 1981, Leo XIV does not want Rupnik, "The Capital Schism", "Francis" and the popular movements.

August 29, 2026

Pope Leo XIV and addictions in Latin America, the Vatican and Russia, Sarah gets angry, deaconesses, Rupnik's mosaics, the lack of priests creates monsters, Catholic-Masonic funeral in France, Martin SJ at Notre Dame, the satanic temple and the tragedy of abortion.

August 28, 2026

Pope Leo XIV and the liturgical wars, Christ the Savior in Moscow, the nuncio in Kiev, the Pope and Nike, What to do with Rupnik?, religious freedom and the right not to emigrate, synodality and the deposit of Faith, bishops who speak clearly.

August 27, 2026

León XIV and the care of creation, the Shalom method, "this war must end", the CIA in Russia, animal ethics, books about the devil, history of Catholicism in China, the useless synodality.

August 26, 2026

Saint Louis of France, new cardinals, the "religious certainties", ecological conversion, the Vatican and Moscow, Catholic military personnel, Rupnik's mosaics, the appointment of bishops in Germany, Catholic rainbows, a distracted parish priest, time of conversions.

August 25, 2026

We start with Moscow, the "infinite gratitude" of Communion and Liberation, Zuppi in Rimini, Saint Michael banned, the 'migrant' piety, the priest gets married, liberation theology, the Company and Paul IV.

August 24, 2026

Pope Leo XIV in the Most Serene Republic of San Marino, in Rimini with Communion and Liberation, writings by Prevost, increase in bishop resignations, Pope Francis's cassock, the ordained priesthood, and synodality.

August 23, 2026

Pope Leo XIV to Catholic legislators, stabilizing Lebanon, the Pope in San Marino and Rimini, friendship among peoples, media synodality, the desacralization and destruction of Vatican II, the Holy Queen Mary.

August 22, 2026

A Vatican between Pachamama and Freemasonry, Protestants and relics, the seven churches of Rome, imagining the Catholic Church, euthanasia and palliative care, Saint Bernard, the Torrelavega Mass, unused churches, the saints of the left, the Moors in Rome.

August 21, 2026