Victoria Cardiel

As a journalist, Victoria Cardiel has specialized in social and religious news. Since 2013, she has covered the Vatican for various media outlets, including Europa Press and Alfa and Omega, the weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Madrid.

Dr. Sergio Alfieri answers questions from the media at a press conference regarding Pope Francis’ health on Friday, Feb. 21, 2025, at Gemelli Hospital in Rome. / Credit: Daniel Ibañez/CNA

Pope Francis’ Doctor: "We really thought we wouldn’t make it"

The head of the medical team that treated Pope Francis at Gemelli Hospital revealed that at one point they had...

Pope Francis waves to the gathered faithful from the balcony at Gemelli Hospital in Rome on Sunday, March 23, 2025. / Credit: Vatican Media/Screenshot

General Audience, Angelus Remain Suspended Despite Pope Francis’ Return to Vatican

Pope Francis is not expected to meet with large groups of faithful until at least the end of May.

Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro. / Credit: Antoniospadaro, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pontiff's Health Situation "delicate" but Not Cause for Alarm: Personal Friend of Pope Francis

“Francis is an 88-year-old man who has had a serious problem but who is now undergoing treatment. It’s not a...

Concert at the Santa Maria dell'Olivo convent in Maciano, Italy, in July 2024. / Credit: Courtesy of Amici della Nave Association

Pope Receives Prisoners’ Prayers for Recovery While Hospitalized in Rome

While hospitalized at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis has received touching letters from inmates who were set to perform for...

A recent meeting of various members of the ecumenical initiative Easter Together 2025. / Credit: Courtesy of Easter Together 2025

Ecumenical Initiative Calls for Unity to Celebrate Easter Together

This year both Easters — Catholic and Orthodox — fall on the same date, April 20, due to the alignment...

The Bishop of Goma during an interview with ACI Prensa | Credit: screenshot/ ACI Prensa

"It was a miracle that more newborns didn't die": Goma Catholic Bishop on Violence in Eastern DR Congo

The crisis in the East of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) continues to worsen. March 23 Movement (M23) rebels, the...

Pope Francis greets Chems-eddine Hafiz, rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris, on Feb. 10, 2025. / Credit: Courtesy of the Grand Mosque of Paris

Paris Grand Mosque Rector Proposes to Pope Francis a Meeting Between Muslims and Christians

Chems-Eddine Hafiz made the proposal on Feb. 10 at Casa Santa Marta in the Vatican during an audience with the...

Thirty-three university students of diverse faiths participate in the Middle Meets project at the headquarters of Scholas Ocurrentes in the Roman neighborhood of Trastevere. / Credit: Scholas Ocurrentes

Young Christians, Muslims, Jews at the Vatican: "It’s possible to live together in peace"

The “Middle Meets” project aims to create a space for listening and understanding between Muslim, Jewish, and Christian students.

“If the devil divides, the creed unites!” the pope said in his Feb. 6, 2025, remarks to a visiting group of priests and monks of the Oriental Orthodox churches, including Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Malankar, and Syriac. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Reiterates Desire for "full unity" among Christians

“The proclamation of the common faith requires, first of all, that we love one another,” the Holy Father said in...

Pope Francis meets with elderly and sick people on his final day in Singapore on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024, marking the conclusion of his 12-day, four-country apostolic journey to Asia and Oceania — the longest trip of his pontificate to date. / Credit: Vatican Media

Pope Francis Highlights Hope for Fifth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly

Pope Francis has chosen “Blessed Are Those Who Have Not Lost Hope” as the theme for the fifth World Day...

Pope Francis and the editor of his autobiography, Carlo Musso. / Credit: Courtesy or Carlo Musso

Editor of Pope Francis’ Autobiography: "He gave absolute freedom, without red lines"

“Hope is the mainstay that undergirds Pope Francis’ entire life,” said Carlo Musso, the Italian editor of Pope Francis’ autobiographical...

The Melkite Greek Basilica of St. Paul in Harissa, Lebanon. / Credit: Kevin Jones/CNA

Vatican Issues Guide on Richness of Eastern Catholic Churches

The Dicastery for the Eastern Churches has prepared a pastoral guide for the 2025 Jubilee of the Eastern Churches to...

Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, during an interview at the Vatican on Dec. 11, 2024. / Credit: EWTN News

Pope Francis Sends Delegation to Syria to Support Reconstruction

“It is the intention of the Holy Father that, in the current situation in Syria, they feel the affection and...

Sister Raffaella Petrini. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN News

Italian Catholic Nun, Raffaella Petrini to Head Vatican Governorate

In less than a month and a half, Pope Francis will install Franciscan nun Raffaella Petrini as head of the...