Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide context for and a preview of the content for the special issue on corporate apologia. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology is a review of literature relevant to crisis communication and the role of apologia within this body of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study three apologies or statements offered by the Vatican and/or Pope Benedict XVI after a much‐debated lecture at the University of Regensburg in Germany in 2006. The rhetorical model of apologizing and apologetic ethics proposed by Hearit is...