On this season finale of “Inside the Vatican,” Colleen and Gerry discuss the hectic weeks before Pope Leo’s summer vacation. First they recap the pope’s trip to Pavia to visit the remains of St. Augustine and the home of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, his speech to the World Food Program and the Vatican’s denial of the German bishops’ request to allow lay people to preach homilies. They also look ahead to this week’s consistory of cardinals, the illicit ordinations planned by SSPX, the pope’s address to Americans on July 3 and his trip to Lampedusa July 4, along with how Leo plans to spend his summer vacation.

In this episode, Gerry also breaks the news of how many days Pope Leo will spend in Argentina, Peru and Uruguay this fall.

0:00 Intro
1:17 Pope Leo’s visit to Pavia and Cabrini’s hometown
4:52 Breaking News - Pope Leo’s agenda for Latin America
5:44 Pope Leo’s visit to the World Food Program
10:50 Vatican says no to lay homilies during Mass
11:35 Meeting of continental synod leaders at Vatican
16:38 Consistory of cardinals on war, AI and the synod
23:49 Cardinals could discuss SSPX at consistory
28:44 Pope Leo’s address to Americans July 3
34:06 Pope Leo’s July 4 visit to Lampedusa
34:53 What we know about Pope Leo’s summer plans
39:22 Please fill out our listener survey!

Links:

Pope Leo XIV exalts first American saint Cabrini as a model for Christians for her care of migrants https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/06/22/pope-leo-xiv-exalts-american-saint-cabrini-for-her-care-of-migrants/
Pope Leo: War is ‘fed more easily’ than the hungry https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/06/22/pope-leo-world-food-program/
Vatican to German bishops: No lay people preaching homilies at Mass https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/06/23/german-bishops-vatican-lay-preaching/
SSPX stands firm against Vatican II in open letter to Pope Leo https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/06/25/sspx-open-letter-vatican-ii/
Extraordinary consistory signals Pope Leo’s push to work with cardinals on global challenges https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/06/23/pope-leo-consistory-cardinals-june/
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