With the announced appointment of Sister Raffaella Petrini as governor of the Vatican City State starting in March, Pope Francis has made his primary intent clear. Faced with an attitude he summarily describes as: “It has always been done this way,” Pope Francis rather applies a personal approach, from which flow changes to both [...]

Pope Francis published his autobiography on Friday of this past week, to significant fanfare, at least from the Vatican side of the operation and certain obliging media outlets.

Titled Spera in Italian—Hope in English, to be read not as a noun but as a verb in the imperative mood—the book hit stores on January [...]

Three papal appointments in one week have created confusion and surprise.

On January 6, Pope Francis appointed Cardinal Robert McElroy Archbishop of Washington. On the same day, the Pope appointed Sister Simona Brambilla as the Dicastery for Religious Institutes prefect. Also on that day, Pope Francis appointed a cardinal, Angél Fernandez Artime, to serve [...]

If all the rumors are confirmed, Pope Francis will visit Nicaea on May 24, together with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew, to celebrate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea.

It will not be the first joint trip of Bartholomew and Francis, who have already been together to Jerusalem and Lesbos. If [...]