Marco Mancini

Marco Mancini

Journalist based in Rome. He worked for 'Area' Press Agency, dealing with internal politics, economics but above all with the Vatican. Accredited at the Press Office of the Holy See, professional journalist since 2008, he followed the conclaves of 2005 and 2013. Currently works for ACI Stampa, EWTN News agency in Italian. He is the author, together with his colleague Andrea Gagliarducci, of "La Quaresima della Chiesa", and "Benedetto XVI, a total Pope".

Articles by Marco Mancini

Pope Francis meets with the College of Cardinals on July 1, 2024. Credit: Vatican Media

What does it mean that almost half of the new cardinals will be from religious orders?

Dec 6, 2024 / 16:15 pm

Out of the 21 cardinals who will be created on Dec. 7 in the 10th consistory of Pope Francis, 10 new cardinals are members of religious congregations.

Left to right: Dominican Father Timothy Radcliffe, Archbishop Fernando Chomali, Archbishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo, Archbishop Rolandas Makrickas, and Bishop Mykola Bychok, CSsR, will be made cardinals in a consistory on Dec. 7, 2024. Credit: EWTN News; Marco Mancini/ACI Stampa

New cardinals emphasize Church unity, evangelization ahead of consistory

Dec 6, 2024 / 15:45 pm

“I am with my heart, and I would say with my whole body, for a synodal vision,” Archbishop Ignace Bessi Dogbo of Abidjan said.

Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples, Italy. Credit: Vincenzo Amoruso via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Naples’ new cardinal sees red hat as call to ‘embrace the cross of the weakest’

Dec 5, 2024 / 17:35 pm

Archbishop Domenico Battaglia of Naples, Italy, said he sees the appointment not as a personal honor but as a call to live out the Church’s mission even more fully.

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Mafia in Italy suspected of poisoning priest’s chalice

Feb 27, 2024 / 15:00 pm

During evening Mass on Feb. 24, Father Felice Palamara noticed a strange smell coming from the chalice.

New Cardinal Ruben Salazar Gomez, archbishop of Bogotá, Colombia, receives the biretta cap from Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Basilica on Nov. 24, 2012, in Vatican City, Vatican. Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images

What did being a cardinal mean to Joseph Ratzinger?

Jan 3, 2023 / 08:00 am

The future Pope Benedict XVI wore the red cassock for almost 28 years.

A consistory for the creation of new cardinals in St. Peter’s Basilica Nov. 28, 2020. Vatican Media.

Who are the new cardinals created by Pope Francis in 2022?

Aug 24, 2022 / 10:28 am

There will be 16 cardinals under the age of 80 elevated at the next consistory, to be held Aug. 27.