
John L. Allen, Jr.
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Vatican expert, journalist, author and pug lover. Editor of Crux, an independent news site, and President of Crux Catholic Media Inc.
Joined February 2013
RT @eliseannallen: PSA: If you don't see me on the @Crux site for a while, it's because I'm busy writing a biography of @Pontifex - keep an….
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RT @eliseannallen: A beautiful moment with Pope Leo XIV yesterday during his meeting with representatives of the media #Vatican #pope https….
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RT @eliseannallen: #PopeFrancis, ‘the people’s pope,’ entombed in his favorite Roman basilica .
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In the final stage of his earthly journey, Pope Francis Saturday was entombed in the papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major as a sign of his deep devotion to Mary and his desire to be accessible to the...
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RT @eliseannallen: Even in death, #PopeFrancis push for dialogue, multilateralism continue.
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One of Pope Francis’s most consistent geopolitical priorities throughout his 12-year reign was peacemaking, most notably through his constant push for building bridges, keeping channels of dialogue...
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Pope Francis is dead at 88, after a series of health struggles:
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With his death April 21, the day after Easter, history will now begin to sort out the layers of the Francis revolution in Catholicism, trying to make sense of one of the most remarkable figures in...
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RT @eliseannallen: On Monday the #Peru -based Sodalitium Christiane Vitae (SCV) announced that after nearly 2yrs of #Vatican inquiry, it ha….
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On Monday the Peru-based Sodalitium Christiane Vitae (SCV) announced its formal suppression, bringing to an end a decade-long saga.
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RT @eliseannallen: Capping a decade-long probe, #Vatican expels founder from scandal-plagued movement in #Peru .
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Peru’s bishops announced Thursday that Peruvian layman Luis Fernando Figari, founder of the scandal-plagued Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, has been formally expelled from the group nearly 10 years...
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RT @eliseannallen: With 3yrs to go until the next global World Youth Day (#WYD) gathering, officials in the Archdiocese of #Seoul, which wi….
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With three years to go until the next global World Youth Day (WYD) gathering in Seoul, local Church officials have launched an official preparation process, voicing hope that it will empower young...
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RT @eliseannallen: In a stroke of irony, the Vatican’s doctrinal office on Thursday, which marked the United States’ Independence Day, conv….
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In a stroke of irony, the Vatican’s doctrinal office on Thursday, which marked the United States’ Independence Day, convened and formally declared that a former US envoy charged with schism was...
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RT @eliseannallen: On Friday Argentine Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, presenting a new set of norms for evaluating the authenticity of M….
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On Friday Argentine Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández presented a new set of norms for evaluating the authenticity of Marian apparitions and other spiritual phenomena, saying a ruling on the famed...
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RT @CharlesinRome: Based on @lymanstoneky recent article in the "Institute for Family Studies" . of course, also in @Crux !.
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RT @eliseannallen: Pope Francis & Argentine President Javier #Milei share a warm handshake & embrace at the end of today's canonization of….
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RT @eliseannallen: Benedict XVI’s private secretary, #German Archbishop Georg #Gänswein, spent the Feast of the Epiphany at a small parish….
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ROME – Pope Benedict XVI’s longtime private secretary, German Archbishop Georg Gänswein, spent the Feast of the Epiphany at a small parish in northern Italy, telling parishioners that Benedict was a...
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RT @eliseannallen: Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu sentenced to 5yrs 6mo in prison at close of a two-year trial for financial crimes related….
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Vatican trial, now ending, a remembrance of things we thought were past
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Observers are suggesting that the trial represents a reassertion of virtually absolute temporal power on the part of the papacy, with potentially far-reaching and dangerous consequences.
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RT @eliseannallen: Pope Francis’s personal envoy for the #Ukraine - #Russia war, Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, is in Washington this week….
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Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, accompanied by an official of the Vatican’s Secretariat of State, is undertaking a mission to promote peace in Ukraine to Washington, D.C. July 17-19.
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RT @eliseannallen: List of synod participants reflects nod to balance, but also tensions @Pontifex #Vatican @Synod_va . .
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A list of the nearly more than 300 participants in the upcoming Synod of Bishops on Synodality shows a relative balance of voices, yet it also highlights ongoing tensions in the American contingent...
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