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Leo XIV: praying before the Most Holy, return to the sacred palace, the pro-life Vatican, the abuse and financial scandals, and Tucho?, the Jesuit dean, Trump and the Immaculate.

December 10, 2025 | SPECOLA

Cold night in Rome, colder than usual, the rising sun slowly warms the square that is preparing for the usual Wednesday audience, a joy to see how the obelisk is gradually surrounded by the fai…

Leo XIV with Rome and his Immaculate, the mariologists against Tucho, 100 nativity scenes in the Vatican, the Orlandi punch, prison or life, Notre Dame of Marseille.

December 9, 2025

Leo XIV is closing the hemorrhages: blessings, deaconesses, traditional Mass, and synodality; an artist with faith and he tells it, AI and the Pope, the stones speak, there are Catholic Germans, the king of instruments, the Immaculate in Rome.

December 8, 2025

Music returns to the Vatican, the martyrs of Chimbote, the ‘submerged schism’, new cardinals in 2026?, the not very Catholic German path, the greens and the ‘wokes’, the new Mass, the sixties of Sacrosanctum Concilium.

December 7, 2025

Books about Leo XIV and by Benedict XVI, the Vatican necropolis, back to the ‘female diaconate’, synod group nine, Pasolini's gospel, internal ecumenism.

December 6, 2025

Pope Leo XIV closes the pontificate of Pope Francis, female diaconate: «No, for now», sacred investments: does it limit but not prevent?, the fox of the Vatican, Benedict XIV saint?, the danger of religious syncretism.

December 5, 2025

Leo XIV and the ‘presence of God’, return ‘to the apartment’, being pope is not easy, music returns to the Vatican, the ‘lamentable’ document, «domus Dei et porta coeli», the eternal post-conciliar issues, the rights of God, ‘crushing the soul’.

December 4, 2025

Informative changes in the first trip of Pope Leo XIV, Venezuela and the German synod, from pastor to pastora, rainbows in school, the vehicle of hope, «Ite missa est».

December 3, 2025

Last day of Pope Leo XIV in the land of cedars, Vatican employees don't believe their accounts, the heirs of communism, the Church and social networks, the unfinished revolution of Pope Francis.

December 2, 2025

Last day in Turkey and first in Lebanon, resolving abuse cases, Müller and the Vatican's relativism, sacred music, destructive gossip, the 60th anniversary of the council's closure.

December 1, 2025

Pope Leo XIV: does not pray in the mosque, does not visit Hagia Sophia; there are Catholics in Turkey, the synodal shenanigans, bishops who see nothing, Islam is radicalizing, Advent and the ‘ontology of desire’.

November 30, 2025