Vatican denies Benedict XVI stroke rumours

Rome Bureau Chief and International Editor
Chris Altieri has been writing for The Catholic Herald since 2018. He spent more than a dozen years on the English news desk at Vatican Radio (2005-2017). He holds the PhD from the Pontifical Gregorian University, and is the author of The Soul of a Nation: America as a Tradition of Inquiry and Nationhood (Pickwick, 2015) and Into the Storm: Chronicle of a Year in Crisis (TAN Books, 2020). He has lived in Rome since 1997.