By now, it's an "All Things Catholic" tradition to run down
the top under-covered Vatican stories of the year. The idea is not
to flag the year's most celebrated events or personalities, because
plenty of other news agencies do that. Rather, I try to lift up
storylines that otherwise flew below radar but that were actually
fairly important. If I were compiling a list of the biggest Vatican
stories of the year, for instance, the beatification of Pope John
Paul II on May 1 would probably be near the top. Yet it doesn't
make the cut as an "under-covered" event, because it's hard to
believe anybody who picked up a newspaper in May 2011, or who
watched TV that day, could have missed it. Similarly, a document
from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace on reform of the
international economy, as well as the Vatican's diplomatic spat
with Ireland, both were important stories, but they were hardly
overlooked.
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