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Almost one thousand years ago, a woman who, disguised as a man, allegedly rose to the highest ranks of the Catholic Church. However, the accounts of this event have been the focus of intense study, with the authenticity of this story the subject of heated debate among historians.
May 12, 2021 · Some remembered that on that very day, 13 May some 64 years earlier, Our Lady had appeared to the shepherd children of Fatima. The Pope, known for his motto Totus tuus, Maria! was then entrusted by the People of God into the hands of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- A Master at The Microphone
- Terrorism in The Vatican
- "I Myself Could Not Find The Words..."
- From Gemelli Hospital to The World
The Vatican Radio reporter saw it and could not believe his eyes. He is jas deeply shaken as anyone in St. Peter's Square on that dramatic afternoon of 13 May 1981. Sitting in front of his microphone, Benedetto Nardacci - one of the most beautiful and sought-after voices at Vatican Radio where he has worked since 1956 - tries to make sense of the a...
Nardacci's language is appropriate to the context of a country that had been plunged for more than a decade into what theorists define as the "strategy of tension" — a daily trickle of assassinations caused by armed subversion of various ideologies — and betrays the fear that the gloomy wave of Italy's Anni di Piombo ("Years of Lead") had in some w...
As he continues in his account, Nardacci still knows nothing about the complex surgical operation underway at Policlinico Gemelli, nor that the Pope " in agony [...] stopped on the threshold of death," as Pope John Paul II himself would write in a message to the Italian bishops in 1994. And yet his chronicle, interrrupted only by the need to catch ...
As Nardacci's words unfolded — and they would literally go around the world — Vatican Radio reacted immediately. Five minutes after the shots were fired, a communication was sent to all the editorial offices with the news of the attack. And within five minutes, the Nardacci's radio report was also broadcast with commentaries in several languages on...
May 25, 2021 · Pope John Paul II (1978-2005) was the victim of an assassination attempt on May 13, 1981, the feast day of Our Lady of Fatima. He miraculously survived the attack, although he almost died.
Jan 18, 2010 · Initial investigations by the Italian police revealed he was a member of an ultra-nationalist group, the Grey Wolves, which was involved in a violent confrontation in Turkey with leftist groups...
May 13, 2021 · Sean-Patrick Lovett, a now-retired Vatican Radio journalist, recalls the fateful events of May 13, 1981, which took place when he was 24-years-old and working that afternoon to prepare the evening English-news broadcast.
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Did Pope Joan Exist? And If She Didn’t, Why Did Boccaccio Write About Her? First, to make one thing clear: Despite all the efforts of feminist-oriented popular researchers, no conclusive proof has yet been found that there was a Pope Joan.
