This week, two news items say a lot about Pope Francis’s modus operandi and show more clearly some dynamics and expectations that have arisen during the pontificate. The first item is the decision to have an internal inspection of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. The second is the

Some were thinking of a transitional pontificate. Others said that three or four years of Bergoglio would be enough to resolve some Church situations, and they shared information to well-connected journalists who published it. On March 13, however, Pope Francis reached the eighth anniversary of his pontificate.

The anniversary fell after a trip [...]

With Cardinal Robert Sarah’s retirement, the chain reaction of new posts in the Roman Curia has begun, which will redesign the balance of power of the Vatican. During the year, Pope Francis could change six heads of congregations and finally complete the text of the Curia’s reform, thus definitively remaking the Vatican in [...]

With the appointment of its first lay woman secretary-general, and the first anywhere in the world, the German Bishops’ Conference last week wanted to indicate the fruits of the Synodal Path of the Church in Germany. In short, a signal that the changes they are discussing will be implemented, whether Rome wants it or [...]

Pope Francis’s latest justice reform completes a path of reform of the new Vatican judicial system that began some time ago and resulted in a reform in 2020 that resulted from an extensive debate. After all, a discussion focused on a basic theme: make the Vatican City State a full fledge state, or maintain [...]

There are three articles, published in recent days in the Italian newspaper Il Foglio, which are worth reading. The three pieces – a series which you can find here - signed by a certain Cincinnato, highlights contradictions and problems created with the Vatican judges’ protagonism in the latest financial events.

It is worth remembering [...]

That of Benedict XVI was a diplomacy founded on truth, which reasoned on principles, and which had as its ultimate goal not only peace but also the peace that comes from the awareness that we are children of God. A speech by Benedict XVI delivered fifteen years ago explains it very well.

The occasion [...]

What Pope Francis thinks, or how he reasons, can be understood above all when the Pope speaks off the cuff, raising his eyes from the paper. Sometimes he inserts phrases into a prepared text; other times, he breaks himself completely loose and delivers real, impromptu speeches. On January 29, at the end of his [...]

It now seems inevitable that 2021 will be a year of significant changes for Pope Francis. The Curia’s reform should be finalized, Vatican finances will once again be under scrutiny by the Council of Europe’s MONEYVAL committee, and Pope Francis will be called to conduct a robust reshuffle of Vatican dicastery heads, as [...]

An Associated Press article published last week shed light on the weakness of the Vatican judicial system. This weakness dramatically emerged during the investigation on the purchase of luxury real estate in London by the Vatican Secretariat of State.

The investigation was a summary proceeding authorized directly by the Pope. Pope Francis skipped [...]