Vatican Diplomacy 101 | Inside the Vatican Podcast

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This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Archbishop Joseph Marino, former president of the Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy which trains Vatican diplomats, joins Colleen Dulle to give a crash course on Vatican Diplomacy: Who are nuncios? What do they do? And what difference do they really make? Before the interview, Colleen also gives some updates on the week’s Vatican news. 00:00 Pope Leo wraps his trip to Africa 2:57 Meet Archbishop Joseph Marino 6:38 Nuncios, the Vatican's ambassadors 14:00 Do Nuncios have to be bishops? 18:25 Political diplomacy and Vatican interests 24:40 Vatican diplomacy before the Iraq war 27:08 The Vatican's diplomatic toolkit 30:15 Pope Leo's diplomatic approach Links: Pope Leo: I am ‘not trying to debate the president’ https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/04/18/pope-leo-i-am-not-trying-to-debate-the-president/ Pope Leo in Angola: ‘Put the common good before partisan interests’ https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/04/18/pope-leo-in-angola-put-the-common-good-before-partisan-interests/ Pope Leo to Angolans: ‘Build a country where old divisions are overcome forever’ https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/04/19/pope-leo-to-angolans-build-a-country-where-old-divisions-are-overcome-forever/ Pope Leo tells Angola’s Catholic leaders: ‘Never cease to denounce injustices.’ https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/04/20/pope-leo-angola-catholic-leaders/ Pope Leo remembers ‘the great gift’ of Pope Francis on the first anniversary of his death https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-dispatch/2026/04/21/pope-leo-francis-anniversary-death/ Pope Francis remembered by those who knew him https://www.americamagazine.org/faithinfocus/2026/04/21/pope-francis-jesuit-curia-death-one-year/ Pope Leo’s delicate task in Equatorial Guinea: Bless the faithful, not the regime https://www.americamagazine.org/news/2026/04/21/pope-leo-equatorial-guinea/ Pope Leo calls on leaders to ‘bridge the gap’ between poor and rich in Equatorial Guinea https://www.americamagazine.org/vatican-di