Alexey Gotovskiy

Alexey Gotovskiy

Alexey Gotovskiy has worked at the EWTN Vatican Bureau as a journalist, TV producer, and manager for the last seven years. He was born in the Soviet Union, grew up in Russia, was raised in Kazakhstan, and received his graduate-level education in Church communications at the Roman Pontifical University of Holy Cross.

Articles by Alexey Gotovskiy

Cross overlooking the Casentino Valley. Credit: Alexey Gotovskiy EWTN / CNA

PHOTOS: La Verna in Tuscany marks 800th anniversary of St. Francis’ stigmata

Sep 18, 2024 / 17:30 pm

Crowds gathered on Sept, 17 in the Casentino Valley in Italy for the 800th anniversary celebration of St. Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata, the wounds of Christ.

Father Andrew Tin Nguyen, parish priest of Mary Help of Christians in Darkhan, Mongolia, with Tsetsegee, who found a statue of the Blessed Mother in a landfill, which will be blessed by Pope Francis during his trip to Mongolia from Aug. 31–Sept. 4, 2023. Credit: Photo courtesy of Father Andrew Tin Nguyen

How Blessed Mary found her way to Mongolia

Aug 31, 2023 / 13:00 pm

Upon arriving in Mongolia, Pope Francis will bless the Statue of Our Lady, known as “Heavenly Mother.”

Pope Francis and Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk. Mazur/cbcew.org.uk/Олександр Гаврик via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Vatican reassures Ukrainian Catholics that pope did not intend to praise Russian imperialism

Aug 29, 2023 / 10:34 am

Pope Francis made the comment while speaking off the cuff during a live video conference with Russian youth Aug. 25. 

Young Catholics participating in the 10th edition of the Russian Youth Gathering in St. Petersburg, Russia, watch a livestream of Pope Francis at the Basilica of St. Catherine of Alexandria on Aug. 25, 2023. Credit: Basilica of St. Catherine of Alexandria

Pope Francis encourages young Russian Catholics to be ‘bridge builders’

Aug 26, 2023 / 13:45 pm

Without referring directly to Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Holy Father called on the youth to pursue peace “in the midst of so many conflicts.”