Colleen Dulle
@colleendulle.com
Covering the Vatican, grappling with faith 🙏
👩💻 Associate Editor, americamagazine.org
🎧 Inside the Vatican podcast
📚 Struck Down, Not Destroyed (2025)
🔗🌳 Find it all: https://linktree.com/colleendulle
👩💻 Associate Editor, americamagazine.org
🎧 Inside the Vatican podcast
📚 Struck Down, Not Destroyed (2025)
🔗🌳 Find it all: https://linktree.com/colleendulle
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New book by @colleendulle.com came in the mail today; looking forward to reading it soon
August 12, 2025 at 8:56 PM
New book by @colleendulle.com came in the mail today; looking forward to reading it soon
I'm excited to share that as of July 1, I am now Vatican Correspondent for America Magazine!
I'll be moving to Rome in summer 2026 with my family to be an on-the-ground reporting team with Gerard O'Connell, who is now our Senior Vatican Correspondent.
So excited for this next chapter ❤️🇮🇹
I'll be moving to Rome in summer 2026 with my family to be an on-the-ground reporting team with Gerard O'Connell, who is now our Senior Vatican Correspondent.
So excited for this next chapter ❤️🇮🇹
July 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I'm excited to share that as of July 1, I am now Vatican Correspondent for America Magazine!
I'll be moving to Rome in summer 2026 with my family to be an on-the-ground reporting team with Gerard O'Connell, who is now our Senior Vatican Correspondent.
So excited for this next chapter ❤️🇮🇹
I'll be moving to Rome in summer 2026 with my family to be an on-the-ground reporting team with Gerard O'Connell, who is now our Senior Vatican Correspondent.
So excited for this next chapter ❤️🇮🇹
Pope Francis has been pushing for a common date for Easter between the Eastern and Western churches. My explainer: www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
Vatican II called for a common date for Easter in the East and West. Will it ever happen?
On Jan. 25, Pope Francis said that the Catholic Church was open to accepting a common date for Easter “that everyone wants.” While the pope’s call may seem groundbreaking, it actually goes back to the...
www.americamagazine.org
February 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Pope Francis has been pushing for a common date for Easter between the Eastern and Western churches. My explainer: www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
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Útil repaso de la larga relación entre Vaticano e IA.
@colleendulle.com en @americamag.bsky.social
www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
@colleendulle.com en @americamag.bsky.social
www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
What does the Vatican know about A.I.? A lot, actually.
A timeline of the Vatican’s decade-long history of leadership in the field of A.I. ethics—a history that has earned it significant influence among tech leaders, particularly at Microsoft and IBM
www.americamagazine.org
February 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Útil repaso de la larga relación entre Vaticano e IA.
@colleendulle.com en @americamag.bsky.social
www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
@colleendulle.com en @americamag.bsky.social
www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...
Our latest deep dive is out now, on the 2024 session of the Synod on Synodality: www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
#Vatican #PopeFrancis
#Vatican #PopeFrancis
Women deacons, papal power and the church of tomorrow: Inside the 2024 Synod on Synodality
This special deep dive episode recaps the 2024 Vatican meeting of the Synod on Synodality, featuring interviews with five synod delegates about the tensions and unexpected breakthroughs in the Synod h...
www.americamagazine.org
January 31, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Our latest deep dive is out now, on the 2024 session of the Synod on Synodality: www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
#Vatican #PopeFrancis
#Vatican #PopeFrancis
Pope Francis falls, suffers bruise but no fractures www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
Pope Francis falls, suffers bruise but no fractures
The fall resulted “in a contusion to the right forearm, without any fracture,” but “the arm has been immobilized as a precautionary measure,” the Vatican stated.
www.americamagazine.org
January 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Pope Francis falls, suffers bruise but no fractures www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
Thanks for the shoutout, @mfjlewis.bsky.social! wherepeteris.com/the-vaticans...
The Vatican's first woman prefect (and more on McElroy to DC)
Pope Francis’s appointment of Sister Simona Brambilla as the first woman to lead a major Vatican office marks a historic milestone in the Catholic Church’s governance. As the new prefect of the Dicast...
wherepeteris.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thanks for the shoutout, @mfjlewis.bsky.social! wherepeteris.com/the-vaticans...
Answering all your questions about Sr. Simona Brambilla’s appointment as the first woman to head a Vatican dicastery: www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
A woman leads a Vatican office for the first time ever. Why now?
Pope Francis broke one of the Vatican’s “stained-glass ceilings” on Monday by appointing an Italian sister as the prefect of a Vatican dicastery for the first time. Here’s what you need to know.
www.americamagazine.org
January 8, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Answering all your questions about Sr. Simona Brambilla’s appointment as the first woman to head a Vatican dicastery: www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...
Our "Christmas break" podcast episode, on the history of Jubilee years and what makes #Jubilee2025 different
(Spoiler: Gerry is not as much of a #Luce fan as I am)
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
(Spoiler: Gerry is not as much of a #Luce fan as I am)
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
The Jubilee year: Its history and what’s planned for 2025
In this episode of Inside the Vatican, Colleen Dulle and Gerard O’Connell discuss the 2025 Jubilee Year, beginning on Christmas Eve 2024 and ending in January 2026.
www.americamagazine.org
December 28, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Our "Christmas break" podcast episode, on the history of Jubilee years and what makes #Jubilee2025 different
(Spoiler: Gerry is not as much of a #Luce fan as I am)
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
(Spoiler: Gerry is not as much of a #Luce fan as I am)
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
My Christmas Eve reflection for America Magazine: www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
Quiet and rest are God’s antidote when we feel he isn’t there
A Reflection for Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Advent, Mass in the Morning, by Colleen Dulle
www.americamagazine.org
December 24, 2024 at 8:22 PM
My Christmas Eve reflection for America Magazine: www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
I'm on Jesuitical this week talking about #Conclave open.spotify.com/episode/2iuZ...
Could the plot twist in “Conclave” actually happen?
Jesuitical · Episode
open.spotify.com
December 23, 2024 at 4:58 PM
I'm on Jesuitical this week talking about #Conclave open.spotify.com/episode/2iuZ...
I've been asked a few times whether Pope Francis skipped the Notre Dame reopening bc of the Olympic opening ceremony brouhaha.
I can't say for certain if his Dec. 15 visit to Corsica, also in France, was the reason he said no, but the choice to go to Corsica over Paris this month is telling. (1/4)
I can't say for certain if his Dec. 15 visit to Corsica, also in France, was the reason he said no, but the choice to go to Corsica over Paris this month is telling. (1/4)
December 3, 2024 at 1:08 PM
I've been asked a few times whether Pope Francis skipped the Notre Dame reopening bc of the Olympic opening ceremony brouhaha.
I can't say for certain if his Dec. 15 visit to Corsica, also in France, was the reason he said no, but the choice to go to Corsica over Paris this month is telling. (1/4)
I can't say for certain if his Dec. 15 visit to Corsica, also in France, was the reason he said no, but the choice to go to Corsica over Paris this month is telling. (1/4)
My fact-check of #Conclave is up now. Warning: This is all about the spoilers! www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture...
‘Conclave’ explainer: Could that twist ending really happen?
How realistic is “Conclave”? A canon lawyer weighs in.
www.americamagazine.org
November 29, 2024 at 7:17 PM
My fact-check of #Conclave is up now. Warning: This is all about the spoilers! www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture...
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Understanding how trans people ended up going to Pope Francis’ audiences, and meeting with him, requires a pretty solid understanding of his relationship with the spiritual family of Charles de Foucauld. Last year, I reconstructed that untold story for you:
contemplativeinthemud.com/2023/09/05/p...
contemplativeinthemud.com/2023/09/05/p...
The Pope, Transgender People, and Little Sisters of Jesus: How It Came to Happen
The pope is visited by transgender people at his general audiences. He has gone to a permanent carnival park to visit the Little Sisters of Jesus who bring these trans people to him. And he chats w…
contemplativeinthemud.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:53 PM
Understanding how trans people ended up going to Pope Francis’ audiences, and meeting with him, requires a pretty solid understanding of his relationship with the spiritual family of Charles de Foucauld. Last year, I reconstructed that untold story for you:
contemplativeinthemud.com/2023/09/05/p...
contemplativeinthemud.com/2023/09/05/p...
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Vatican to consider classifying 'spiritual abuse' as new Catholic crime
Vatican to consider classifying 'spiritual abuse' as new Catholic crime
Pope Francis has asked the Vatican to study whether the Catholic Church should classify "spiritual abuse" as a new crime in order to address cases where priests use purported mystical experiences as a pretext for harming others.
www.reuters.com
November 26, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Vatican to consider classifying 'spiritual abuse' as new Catholic crime
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Ht to Christopher White at @ncronline.bsky.social - Pope Francis has clarified that the Final Document of the synod “participates in the ordinary magisterium of the Successor of Peter.” Some points 🧵
November 25, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Ht to Christopher White at @ncronline.bsky.social - Pope Francis has clarified that the Final Document of the synod “participates in the ordinary magisterium of the Successor of Peter.” Some points 🧵
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Vatican confirms: Pope Francis will travel to Corsica Dec. 15 for a nine-hour visit. He'll speak at a conference on popular religiosity, meet churchworkers, celebrate an outdoor Mass & meet with French President Emmanuel Macron.
November 23, 2024 at 11:27 AM
Vatican confirms: Pope Francis will travel to Corsica Dec. 15 for a nine-hour visit. He'll speak at a conference on popular religiosity, meet churchworkers, celebrate an outdoor Mass & meet with French President Emmanuel Macron.
Pope Francis is set to visit Corsica next month, @joshua-mcelwee.bsky.social reports: www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Pope Francis to visit Corsica, local diocese says
Pope Francis will visit Corsica on Dec. 15, the local diocese said on its website on Thursday, in the first recorded trip of a pope to the French island in the Mediterranean.
www.reuters.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Pope Francis is set to visit Corsica next month, @joshua-mcelwee.bsky.social reports: www.reuters.com/world/europe...
At long last, our transcript/translation of the Oct. 24 meeting where Cardinal Fernandez answered #synod participants' questions on Study Group 5 is here:
#PopeFrancis #Vatican
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
#PopeFrancis #Vatican
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
Transcript: Cardinal Fernández’s meeting with synod members on the workings of Study Group 5
A transcript prepared by America Media sheds light on the meeting between Cardinal Fernández and synod participants held on Oct. 24.
www.americamagazine.org
November 21, 2024 at 4:12 PM
At long last, our transcript/translation of the Oct. 24 meeting where Cardinal Fernandez answered #synod participants' questions on Study Group 5 is here:
#PopeFrancis #Vatican
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
#PopeFrancis #Vatican
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
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Pope Francis’ representatives have aligned w Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran & Egypt to obstruct a deal which wd have provided more support, including financial help, for women at the forefront of #climatechange , Colombia’s environment minister told the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#Vatican #COP29
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#Vatican #COP29
COP29 row breaks out with Vatican over gender rights
Charities worry it could block a crucial deal giving women more support in the face of climate change.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Pope Francis’ representatives have aligned w Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran & Egypt to obstruct a deal which wd have provided more support, including financial help, for women at the forefront of #climatechange , Colombia’s environment minister told the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#Vatican #COP29
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#Vatican #COP29
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New edition of liturgical book for funeral rites of the Roman Pontiff published
www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...
www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...
New edition of liturgical book for funeral rites of the Roman Pontiff published - Vatican News
Pope Francis approved the updated edition of the liturgical book for papal funeral rites last April . The Vatican's Office for the Liturgical ...
www.vaticannews.va
November 20, 2024 at 2:41 PM
New edition of liturgical book for funeral rites of the Roman Pontiff published
www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...
www.vaticannews.va/en/vatican-c...
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War is always a defeat. I call again for the madness of violence to end. May we commit to just and lasting peace. Let us pray for the people of Ukraine.
November 19, 2024 at 11:08 PM
War is always a defeat. I call again for the madness of violence to end. May we commit to just and lasting peace. Let us pray for the people of Ukraine.
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How realistic is ‘Conclave,’ the movie?
It tries to showcase the battle for the soul of the church that takes place during a papal election & examines the tension between the demands of faith and the desire for high office.
My @cnn.com analysis:
www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/e...
It tries to showcase the battle for the soul of the church that takes place during a papal election & examines the tension between the demands of faith and the desire for high office.
My @cnn.com analysis:
www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/e...
How realistic is ‘Conclave,’ the movie that lifts the lid on how a pope is elected? | CNN
This has been a blockbuster election year politically, so it’s fitting that a new movie shines a light on an ancient and highly secretive voting process: the selection of a new pope.
www.cnn.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:25 PM
How realistic is ‘Conclave,’ the movie?
It tries to showcase the battle for the soul of the church that takes place during a papal election & examines the tension between the demands of faith and the desire for high office.
My @cnn.com analysis:
www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/e...
It tries to showcase the battle for the soul of the church that takes place during a papal election & examines the tension between the demands of faith and the desire for high office.
My @cnn.com analysis:
www.cnn.com/2024/11/19/e...
Reposted by Colleen Dulle
Pope Francis to #G20 Summit: “There is a significant paradox in terms of access to food. On the one hand, over 3 billion people lack access to a nutritious diet. On the other hand, almost 2 billion individuals are overweight due to poor nutrition.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...
November 18, 2024 at 5:56 PM
Pope Francis to #G20 Summit: “There is a significant paradox in terms of access to food. On the one hand, over 3 billion people lack access to a nutritious diet. On the other hand, almost 2 billion individuals are overweight due to poor nutrition.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...
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#PopeFrancis in letter marking 1,000 days since Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, prays "to God, the only source of life, hope and wisdom, that He may convert hearts and enable them to initiate paths of dialogue, reconciliation and concord.”
November 19, 2024 at 3:03 PM
#PopeFrancis in letter marking 1,000 days since Russia's large-scale invasion of Ukraine, prays "to God, the only source of life, hope and wisdom, that He may convert hearts and enable them to initiate paths of dialogue, reconciliation and concord.”