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Victor Gaetan

Victor Gaetan

Victor Gaetan is a senior correspondent for the National Catholic Register, focusing on international issues. He also writes for Foreign Affairs magazine, The American Spectator and the Washington Examiner. He contributed to Catholic News Service for several years. The Catholic Press Association of North America has given his articles four first place awards, including Individual Excellence, over the last five years. Gaetan received a license (B.A.) in Ottoman and Byzantine Studies from Sorbonne University in Paris, an M.A. from the Fletcher School of International Law and Diplomacy, and a Ph.D. in Ideology in Literature from Tufts University. His book God’s Diplomats: Pope Francis, Vatican Diplomacy, and America’s Armageddon was published by Rowman & Littlefield in July 2021. Visit his website at VictorGaetan.org.

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Pope Francis waves as he arrives at the N'djili International Airport in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on January 31, 2023. - Pope Francis landed in the Democratic Republic of Congo, hailing his beautiful trip to Africa as he comes bearing a message of peace to the conflict-torn nation, before heading to troubled neighbour South Sudan.

Precious Periphery: Pope Francis’ Ecumenical Peace Pilgrimage to South Sudan

NEWS ANALYSIS: Five reasons the Holy See prioritized this journey.

Victor Gaetan World January 31, 2023

Cardinal Gracias thanks Thai dancers during the conference. Pastoral center with illuminated fountain. Delegates hold prayer boats before releasing them in water.

Five Takeaways from the Asian Bishops’ Jubilee Conference

ANALYSIS: More than 200 delegates, including 130 bishops, representing 27 member countries, together with 40 cardinals, assembled for 19 days in October for the meeting of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences.

Victor Gaetan World November 29, 2022

Clockwise from Left: St Xavier School in Kathmandu. Doors to Assumption Cathedral in Kathmandu. Students walking in the quad at St. Xavier School. Statue in front of the cathedral.

Catholicism in Nepal: A Small, Productive Church in the Himalayas

Christianity is surging in the landlocked South Asian democratic republic.

Victor Gaetan World November 2, 2022

Giorgia Meloni leader of the 'Fratelli d'Italia' party speaks at a political rally on Sept. 18 in Caserta, Italy. Italians head to the polls for general elections on Sept. 25.

Campaigning as a Catholic Mother, Giorgia Meloni Could Be Italy’s First Woman Prime Minister

NEWS ANALYSIS: Dismissed by critics as representing only an extremist fringe, Meloni’s Brothers of Italy political party is now leading in polls taken ahead of the Sept. 25 national elections.

Victor Gaetan World September 22, 2022

Pope Francis and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, embrace during their historic meeting in Havana, Cuba, on Feb. 12, 2016.

Papal Engagement With Russia: 5 Historic Moments Where Popes Intervened

NEWS ANALYSIS: From Pope Benedict XV to Pope Francis, the supreme pontiffs have repeatedly sought to build bridges with the Russian Orthodox Church.

Victor Gaetan Vatican March 3, 2022

Pope Paul VI addresses to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Oct. 4, 1965. Seated behind him, from left are: U.N. Secretary General U Thant; General Assembly President Amintore Fanfani and C.V. Narasimhan, U.N. Undersecretary for General Assembly Affairs.

What Is the Holy See’s ‘Sovereignty’?

A Crucial, Often Misunderstood, Attribute

Victor Gaetan Vatican December 28, 2021

(L) Father Tadeusz Hoppe holds cross in left hand, on his right-hand side Cardinal František Tomášek blesses the worshippers. (B-L) Ecumenical meeting in Father Tadeusz Hoppe's apartment in Odessa. (R) Father Hoppe was the eyes and ears of the Vatican for the southern Soviet Union. Every Easter and Christmas he took a two-country trek, by train, plane, and taxi or bus to offer the Mass in Odessa and Kyiv, Ukraine and Chisinau, Moldova.

Dispatch From Odessa: Mystery of the Only Latin Catholic Church Open in Southern Ukraine Under Communism

Parishioners recall a dedicated pastor; Today, bishop covers both Ukraine and Russia.

Victor Gaetan World August 27, 2021

Book cover of Msgr. Gabriel Quicke's ‘A Spiritual Discovery of Christians in the Middle East’

Missionary Reports Positive Stories of Holy See Engagement in Middle East

An interview with Msgr. Gabriel Quicke, author of ‘A Spiritual Discovery of Christians in the Middle East’

Victor Gaetan Interviews December 15, 2020

Under duress, Armenia signed a Russian-brokered peace deal with Azerbaijan. The territory in turquoise, including the town of Shushi (in gray oval) was taken by Azeri military force in November and retained in the peace agreement of Nov. 10. Shushi has been part of the Armenian ‘cradle of Christianity’ for centuries; Armenia adopted Christianity even before Rome did.

Experts: Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Is Christian Genocide Under the Pretext of War

NEWS ANALYSIS: Memories of the genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Turks 100 years ago are still fresh.

Victor Gaetan World November 16, 2020

The extraordinary cathedral is designated a World Historical Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Erdoğan Drops His Mask, and the Hammer, on Hagia Sophia: The Caliphate Is Back

NEWS ANALYSIS: When Turkey’s president announced the historic church would revert to a mosque, he effectively declared an end to modern Turkey’s identity.

Victor Gaetan World July 22, 2020

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