Cardinals, cake and corndogs: Inside a complicated Vatican July 4
Cardinal Donald Wuerl, from left, Cardinal Raymond Burke, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin, United States Ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo and Cardinal Blase Cupich attend an Independence Day party at Burch's residence, June 26, 2026, in Rome. (RNS photo/Claire Giangravè)
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — The first American-born pope may have brought Washington and Rome closer symbolically, but not necessarily politically, as tensions over peace and immigration continue to complicate U.S.-Holy See relations on the 250th anniversary of the United States.
