Pope Francis’s decision to change the primatial see of Argentina should not be seen as merely a local choice. Indeed, the decision and the reasons for the decision itself represent, in some way, the entire modus operandi of Pope Francis. There are, in the Pope’s choice to move the primatial see of Argentina from [...]

There is a paradox at the origin of the Francis pontificate. Francis’s reign originated precisely from those who, today, contest him and even out-and-out fight him, and find themselves marginalized and even expelled.

In short, Pope Francis’s pontificate was born from a kind of “self-fulfilling prophecy,” from the idea of a misfortune that one [...]

To judge by the working document recently published, the synod assembly by which Pope Francis wants to introduce the “synodal method” as the practice of the Church will be a reflection of the Francis pontificate.

The working document of the final stage of the Synod on Synodality has substantial differences compared to the first. [...]

It isn’t every day the pope’s chief-of-staff testifies in a major legal proceeding. It’s an even rarer thing for the papal chief-of-staff to testify in proceedings conducted by a state other than the Vatican. That’s what happened last week, though, and it was a really big deal.

Archbishop Edgar Pena Parra, sostituto of [...]

The appointment of Archbishop Georg Gänswein as nuncio to the Baltics closes a circle. Pope Francis had asked Benedict XVI’s former secretary to return to his diocese of Fribourg without assignment after announcing the termination of his role as prefect of the Papal Household. After a year and a half, Francis assigned Gänswein to [...]