This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Archbishop Joseph Marino, former president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy which trains Vatican diplomats, joins Colleen Dulle to give a crash course on Vatican Diplomacy: Who are nuncios? What do they do? And what difference do they really make?

Before the interview, Colleen also gives some updates on the week’s Vatican news.

00:00 Pope Leo wraps his trip to Africa
2:57 Meet Archbishop Joseph Marino
6:38 Nuncios, the Vatican's ambassadors
14:00 Do Nuncios have to be bishops?
18:25 Political diplomacy and Vatican interests
24:40 Vatican diplomacy before the Iraq war
27:08 The Vatican's diplomatic toolkit
30:15 Pope Leo's diplomatic approach

Links:
Pope Leo: I am ‘not trying to debate the president’ https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/04/18/pope-leo-i-am-not-trying-to-debate-the-president/
Pope Leo in Angola: ‘Put the common good before partisan interests’ https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/04/18/pope-leo-in-angola-put-the-common-good-before-partisan-interests/
Pope Leo to Angolans: ‘Build a country where old divisions are overcome forever’ https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/04/19/pope-leo-to-angolans-build-a-country-where-old-divisions-are-overcome-forever/
Pope Leo tells Angola’s Catholic leaders: ‘Never cease to denounce injustices.’ https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/04/20/pope-leo-angola-catholic-leaders/
Pope Leo remembers ‘the great gift’ of Pope Francis on the first anniversary of his death https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/04/21/pope-leo-francis-anniversary-death/
Pope Francis remembered by those who knew him https://www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus/2026/04/21/pope-francis-jesuit-curia-death-one-year/
Pope Leo’s delicate task in Equatorial Guinea: Bless the faithful, not the regime https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/04/21/pope-leo-equatorial-guinea/
Pope Leo calls on leaders to ‘bridge the gap’ between poor and rich in Equatorial Guinea https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/04/22/pope-leo-equatorial-guinea-poverty-corruption
Pope Leo tells inmates ‘you are not alone’ during Equatorial Guinea prison visit at end of Africa tour https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/04/22/pope-leo-prison-equatorial-guinea/
Pope Leo’s powerful lesson in vulnerable leadership https://www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-reason/2026/04/22/pope-leo-trump-leadership/
Pope Leo at year one: The progress of an American pope https://www.americamagazine.org/features/2026/04/16/pope-leo-at-year-one-the-progress-of-an-american-pope/

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