If we look at it in its entirety, the working document of the upcoming Synod on synodality – though the organizers would prefer “Synod on the life of the Church” – wanted by Pope Francis is balanced. It is a document that responds to two souls, two different approaches: that of listening to the [...]

Pope Francis’ decision to ask Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, now prefect emeritus of the Papal Household, to return to his native diocese testifies not only to the fact that the Pope wants to cut ties with the previous pontificate completely. The decision regarding Archbishop Gaenswein is further proof of the modus operandi of Pope [...]

The new hospitalization of Pope Francis has left many questions hanging. One wonders, in particular, which initiatives the Pope will carry forward and which will remain set aside instead. One wonders what the Pope’s plans are and whether this new surgery has changed them. One wonders, above all, what will be the legacy of [...]

“How many divisions does the Pope have?” This provocative question is attributed to Stalin, who looked at the Holy See only from a geopolitical point of view. This was, of course, a short-sighted political view. In fact, it was the Soviet Union that had wanted to involve the Holy See in the conference on [...]

Another rescript from Pope Francis. On May 24, the Pope reformed the Auditor General’s office, establishing that his functions continue even during the sede vacante. In practice, therefore, all the heads of dicasteries cease, except for the Pope’s Vicar for the diocese of Rome, the Camerlengo, and the Auditor General.

It was foreseeable that [...]

What is happening under Pope Francis seems to be a process of “Vaticanization of the Holy See”. It is a sort of Copernican revolution, which effectively overturns a fundamental principle. The Vatican City State was in fact conceived as being at the service of the Holy See, its existence guarantees a sovereignty that is [...]

There being a media papacy and an actual papacy applies to any pontificate. The media does not know the profound reasons for a pope’s decisions or why he chooses some collaborators over others. They simply observe and then report what they observe. Sometimes, it is accurate; other times they can be misled in their [...]

When Pope Francis was elected ten years ago, the decision to rewrite part of the recent history of the Church was immediately clear. The extraordinary emphasis given to Pope Francis’ gestures, the attention of the media, but also some gestures made by Francis himself from the beginning, said so.

In these ten years of [...]

The news that the Synod will no longer have auditors, but members, be they bishops, priests, religious, or lay people, was not unexpected. Already in the Praedicate Evangelium, the apostolic constitution which regulates the functioning of the Curia, it was no longer called the Synod of bishops. And therefore, it was logical that [...]

Today, the first Council of Cardinals of the new era of Pope Francis’ pontificate begins. Of course, it is not the first Council held after the promulgation of the Apostolic Constitution Praedicate Evangelium, the reform of the Curia, which was the main reason why the Pope decided to gather around himself a group of [...]