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VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Ken Hackett, former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, said he was advised early on that diplomacy with the Vatican was about relationships, not transactions. You have no oil to sell, no rockets, no guns, no grass seed. You are not selling anything, he said. Instead, you must develop workable relationships with the many people in the Curia and elsewhere, in order to really find out whats going on and to be able to do your job. So, naturally, Hacketts book, The Vatican

After months of saying publicly he would do everything possible to stop the war in Ukraine, including making a visit to the besieged country, Pope Francis said that a trip to Ukraine was now off the table.

Former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Ken Hackett, in an interview with America, shared his views on the possibility of a papal trip to Ukraine.

Vladimir Putins cynical exploitation of Christianity for territorial aspirations and Pope Francis continuing appeasement of the Russian president for elusive ecumenical aims

(RNS) — The unusually veiled meeting is stoking speculation about whether the two will discuss the incendiary debates going on among the U.S. bishops over the second Catholic U.S. president's abortion stance.

(RNS) — It won’t be the first time the two have met, but it will be the first since Biden became president.

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US Bishops try to rein in the Biden administration, but the Vatican is all smiles

Before they even verbalized an answer, they ran into the tin and wood shacks they called homes, produced a picture of borgolio baptizing their kids or sitting in their living rooms when their husbands died because thats where he spent his time. >> were expecting the pope to come out at any moment now. and then hell go to catholic charities. catholic charities, obviously, an important organization in washington, d.c. and throughout the country. father, the former head of catholic charities, came ...