Vaticanology, the practice of studying and writing about the inner workings of the Holy See, was a niche area of journalism for most of American history.

The field has experienced a small boost in recent years as Catholicism has risen in prominence within U.S. society; a trend concurrent with the mass media’s ballooning consumption amid the United States’s ongoing culture war.

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