Joseph Tulloch is a writer and journalist based in Rome.

He works for Vatican News, where he covers the Pope, the Vatican, and the worldwide Catholic Church.

He also works as a freelancer covering the same topics – he’s written for Al Jazeera, The Times, The Tablet, and more.

His main interest is in religion – in the way it shapes individuals and societies, and in the extraordinary claims it makes about the world we live in.

In a past life, he was a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Oxford.