John L. Allen Jr. is a Vatican expert, journalist, and author known for his extensive coverage of the Catholic Church. He is the editor of Crux, an independent news site, and serves as the President of Crux Catholic Media Inc. John's work focuses on providing in-depth analysis and commentary on Vatican affairs, papal history, and the intersection of religion and society.
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Gandhi during the Salt March, March 1930. (Credit: Wikicommons.)
By: John L. Allen Jr.
Vatican employees protesting. Why? Synod: global South tells West to buzz off. Synod pushing for legal changes to Church structures? Cardinal purposely skipping Synod meetings? Pope releasing own autobiography, a historic first?
By: John L. Allen Jr.
Gustavo Gutiérrez, who died Oct. 22 at the age of 96, was an icon of 20th century Latin American Catholicism, and for decades, reactions for or against Gutiérrez’s pioneering theology marked the primary fault lines in the church on the continent.
By: John L. Allen Jr.
That Roman night, which united Cardinal Gerhard Müller with his longtime friend Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, marked an official rehabilitation of sorts for Gutiérrez. The outcome later was given an exclamation point when Pope Francis sent the aging Dominican a note praising his “theological service” on the occasion of his 90th birthday in June 2018.
The left-leaning ethos of the synod was perhaps most clear on Oct. 24, when Argentine Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery of the Faith, held an open meeting with roughly 100 participants to discuss the role of women.
By: John L. Allen Jr.
Synod ends: why it wasn’t what many expected.
By: John L. Allen Jr.
By law, a pope possesses supreme executive, legislative and judicial authority in the Catholic Church, meaning there simply is no such thing as a separation of powers.
Pope Francis meets Mar Awa III, Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, on Nov. 9, 2024. (Credit: Vatican Media.)
By: John L. Allen
ROME – One factor forever complicating Vatican analysis is the proliferation of prefabricated scripts which various constituencies yearn to apply to events, rather than allowing those events to speak for themselves.
ROME – Earlier this month, an AI-generated video went viral purportedly showing Vatican potentates gathered around an altar and worshipping Satan. While that was clearly bogus, it’s nonetheless an historical fact that the Vatican actually does owe a debt to Lucifer for preserving a deal with Italy that’s at the heart of both its sovereignty and its wealth to this day.
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