Inside The Vatican

SSPX rejects Vatican dialogue offer

Inside The Vatican

Show Notes

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell discuss the announcement of several new papal trips, as well as the Society of St. Pius X’s rejection of a Vatican offer for dialogue and what could happen next. In the second part of the show, the hosts look at the situation of Ukrainian Catholics and the Vatican’s efforts to help end the war on its fourth anniversary.

0:00 Intro

0:47 Papal trips for spring announced

7:30 SSPX rejects Vatican proposal

12:33 The extra letter to SSPX that Gerry saw

17:30 Cardinals Muller and Sarahs’s warnings

19:24 What’s next for SSPX?

24:14 Fourth anniversary of war in Ukraine

26:59 Vatican response to Ukraine peace talks

31:02 Vatican’s humanitarian aid to Ukraine

34:02 Situation of Ukrainian Catholics

38:32 Outro and Credits

Links:

Pope Leo XIV to embark on 10-day Africa tour and trips to Spain and Monaco

SSPX rejects Vatican dialogue, plans to consecrate bishops without papal mandate

Cardinals Müller, Sarah urge SSPX to submit to papal authority

Pope Leo calls for ‘an immediate ceasefire’ to the war in Ukraine

Four years of war: ‘The Ukrainian Catholic Church is wiped out every time there is Russian aggression.’

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