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Vatican Insider
Direct from the Eternal City, EWTN’s Joan Lewis speaks with Vatican officials and visitors about events affecting the Church and the world.
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POPE LEO’S APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION DILEXI TE
This week, instead of an interview segment, I’ve prepared a Special on Pope Leo’s first magisterial document, his Apostolic Exhortation “Dilexi te – I...

DEACON ANDY AND A MINISTRY TO NATIVE AMERICANS
I do have a very uplifting story in the interview segment of VI and my conversation with Deacon Andy Orosco of the diocese of San Bernardino in Califo...

INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW
I’m calling this segment INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW because I’m going to bring you some trivia, that is, some little known and often unusual facts a...

ST. JOHN CANTIUS, THE STORY OF A CHICAGO PARISH
My guest this week in the interview segment of “Vatican Insider” is a longtime friend, Fr. Frank Phillips, former pastor for 30 years at Chicago’s wel...

AN INSIDER’S LOOK AT CASTELGANDOLFO (PART II)
Welcome to Vatican Insider on this mid-September weekend. I hope the weather is as beautiful where you are as it is here in Rome!
For the inter...

CANONIZATION WEEKEND IN ROME AND A VISIT TO CASTELGANDOLFO
Welcome to Vatican Insider on a very important weekend for the Catholic Church and especially for young people everywhere! As you surely know, this Su...

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF ST. MONICA AND HER CELEBRATED SON, ST. AUGUSTINE
Welcome to Vatican Insider on this final weekend of August. Is summer really almost over! I have yet to go on vacation but that’s coming soon. No in...

THE CHILDREN’S ROSARY, GROWING AROUND THE WORLD
Welcome to Vatican Insider on this August weekend as summer winds down for so many people and schools are about to reopen or already have reopened in...

THE LAZY, HAZY DAYS OF AUGUST IN ROME
Welcome to Vatican Insider at this halfway mark of August. August might be the 8th month of the year for most people but for Italians, it is THE month...

AN AMERICAN ARTIST, A MOSAIC AND A MILLENNIAL SAINT (Pt 2)
Welcome to Vatican Insider on a quiet August weekend – at least in Italy as August is the month of the so-called Great Exodus when Italians leave big...

AN AMERICAN ARTIST, A MOSAIC AND A MILLENNIAL SAINT
Welcome to Vatican Insider on this exciting weekend in Rome when the Jubilee of Youth that started July 28 continues with a vigil Saturday night and a...

ST. ANNE, MOTHER TO MARY, GRANDMOTHER TO JESUS
Welcome to Vatican Insider on the weekend that precedes the arrival in Rome of half a million youth from over 140 countries to celebrate the weeklong...

A CONVERSATION WITH JONATHAN ROUMIE PART 2
In Part II of our conversation, we talk about the years of filming The Chosen, how he was chosen for his role as Jesus, and the extraordinary time spe...

A CONVERSATION WITH JONATHAN ROUMIE PART 1
This week and next, Jonathan talks about how he and the cast rejoiced over meeting a fellow American, Pope Leo XIV, and he also offered a perceptive a...

BEHIND THE SCENES OF “THE CHOSEN” PT2
This week we continue with the second part of the interview of 3 amazing cast members of the TV series, THE CHOSEN – Vanessa Benavente Mother Mary, El...

BEHIND THE SCENES OF “THE CHOSEN” PT1
This week I was blessed to interview 3 amazing cast members of the TV series, THE CHOSEN – Vanessa Benavente Mother Mary, Elizabeth Tabish -Mary Magda...

VATICAN INSIDER CELEBRATES CGA, CATHOLIC GRANDPARENTS ASSOCIATION (PT2)
Welcome to Vatican Insider on another hot summer weekend in Rome and so many parts of the world! Relax, enjoy a cool drink and let me bring you the ne...

VATICAN INSIDER CELEBRATES CGA, CATHOLIC GRANDPARENTS ASSOCIATION
Welcome to Vatican Insider on another exciting Jubilee weekend in a very hot Rome – the Jubilee of Sports with a lot of events in the agenda including...

MSGR. ROGER LANDRY: A PRIEST FOR ALL SEASONS (PT. 2)
Please join me this weekend in the interview segment of Vatican Insider for Part II of my conversation with my very special friend and guest, Msgr. Ro...

MSGR. ROGER LANDRY: A PRIEST FOR ALL SEASONS (PT. 1)
What a guest I have for you this week on Vatican Insider in the interview segment! If you’ve watched EWTN television at any time this month – and ver...

OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY OF POMPEII
Welcome to Vatican Insider on another historic weekend – the second with our new Holy Father, American-born Augustinian, Pope Leo XIV. In fact, the in...

VATICAN INSIDER: AN AMERICAN COUPLE, IMMERSION IN TRUTH AND BEAUTY (PT2)
Habemus Papam! History! A miracle! The first ever Pope, Successor to St Peter, Vicar of Christ, from The United States!
Also, a word about my g...

AN AMERICAN COUPLE, IMMERSION IN TRUTH AND BEAUTY (PT1)
Welcome to Vatican Insider on this second weekend without a Pope! Such a strange feeling! Most of VI’s news segment this week will, of course, be dedi...

VIA LUCIS
This week, in what is normally the interview segment of Vatican Insider, I bring you on a pilgrimage with the Via Lucis!
After the news...

Who Is the Man of the Shroud? Pt 2
In the interview segment this weekend, I present Part II of a Special I‘ve prepared on a piece of cloth linked to the Resurrection, a piece of linen c...

Who Is the Man of the Shroud? Pt 1
Greetings from Rome on this Palm Sunday weekend! Palm Sunday, the start of Holy Week, that extraordinarily solemn time of the year leading up to the E...

Commemorating Pope St. John Paul 20 Years After His Death
On April 2 we marked the 20th anniversary of the death of Pope St. John Paul at 9:37 pm on April 2, 2005, vigil of Divine Mercy Sunday, the new name g...

The Holy House of Loretto
On Tuesday, March 25, we marked one of most important feast days of the Church, the Annunciation, the day when Mary said ‘Yes’ to the Angel Gabriel –...

A Pilgrimage to Rome's Lenten Station Churches
Thanks for tuning in to Vatican Insider on this thrd weekend of Lent. Instead of a guest this weekend in the interview segment, I’m airing a special I...

Dcn Andy Orosco Pt2
Welcome to Vatican Insider on this second weekend of Lent 2025! Challenging times at the Vatican so there’s a lot of news this week but I do have a ve...

Deacon Andy, A Native American with a Very Special Ministry (Pt 1)
Welcome to Vatican Insider on this second weekend of March and the first days of Lent 2025! Challenging times at the Vatican so there’s a lot of news...

Best of: Shrine of Pompeii
This week, in what is normally the interview segment of Vatican Insider, I’ve prepared a Special on the beautiful Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary of...

Pax Invictus: Life and Legacy of Cardinal George Pell (Pt. 2)
Welcome to Vatican Insider! After this week’s news report, you will not want to miss the interview segment and Part II of my conversation with Tess Li...

Pax Invictus: Life and Legacy of Cardinal George Pell
Welcome to Vatican Insider at this midpoint in February, the shortest month of the year! And Happy Valentine’s Day!
After this week’s news repo...

The Life of a Pastor Pt2
Welcome back to Part II of my conversation with Fr. Ryan Brady, a priest and dear friend from Chicago, who talks with great beauty and profound love a...

The Life of a Pastor (Pt I)
Welcome to Vatican Insider on this first weekend of February 2025! I have a great story for you this week and next when my guest in the interview segm...

ReAir Alveda King
Don’t forget to tune in to Vatican Insider this last weekend of January, a weekend after the March for Life in Washington, D.C. My guest in the interv...

Fr. Ed Linton on Why Priest Need Continuing Theological Education (Pt 2)
Welcome to Vatican Insider on a weekend that precedes a presidential inauguration, Martin Luther King Day and the football game between Notre Dame and...

Patrick Ernst and Nicholas Monnin
This week, we revisit my interview with American seminarians Patrick Ernst and Nicholas Monnin of the diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend in Indiana. Th...

Fr. Ed Linton on Why Priest Need Continuing Theological Education
I want to welcome you this weekend to the first edition of Vatican Insider in this New Year, in this 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope. May it be a wonderful...