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Edward Pentin

Edward Pentin is The Catholic Herald's Rome correspondent and will be blogging on issues relating to the Vatican and the UK

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• Vatican newspaper intervenes in News International hacking row

  Monday, July 11th, 2011

  Fr Tamayo, a Spanish media expert, says scandal indicates the urgent need for ethics in the media

• Former Swiss Guard injured in embassy blast

  Tuesday, December 28th, 2010

  Ex-Guard was victim of parcel bomb sent to the Swiss embassy

• Archbishop Mennini ‘has a reputation as someone who is going places’

  Monday, December 20th, 2010

  The Italian archbishop has done brilliantly as nuncio to Russia and is regarded as a key Vatican insider

• Close papal aide dies in road accident

  Wednesday, November 24th, 2010

  A member of the papal household has died in a car accident

• Peter Seewald: ‘I know of few young people so alive, so curious and so modern as the Pope’

  Friday, November 19th, 2010

  The German author talks about his hugely anticipated book, Light of the World

• Expect an announcement on the consistory this week

  Monday, October 18th, 2010

  Apartments in Rome are ‘already being readied’ for a consistory on November 20 and 21, according to a source

• The Pope’s address in Westminster Hall is one of his most important ever

  Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

  His address to the Queen will be equally historic, but it’s the one at the Palace of Westminster which will have a lasting impact

• The Pope’s trip follows two state visits by the Queen to Rome

  Monday, September 13th, 2010

  In 1961 and 1980 she made official visits to meet John XXIII and John Paul II

• Tony Blair ‘could accompany the Pope for part of his trip’

  Thursday, September 9th, 2010

  The former PM will meet the Holy Father to discuss interreligious dialogue

• Who will be our next ambassador to the Holy See?

  Friday, July 30th, 2010

  Ann Widdecombe’s decision not to go to Rome has opened the field to other candidates