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Pope Francis beyond the crisis. Waiting to appoint new cardinals

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 15 dicembre 2014 · 3 Comments · In Vatican

Pope Francis will hold a consistory to create new cardinals on the 14 and 15th of February. The announcement came at the end of a busy week: Pope Francis has granted an important interview, has personally reshaped the synod narrative against the media narrative during a general audience, and has taken part [...]

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Pope Francis, beyond the paradigm of discontinuity

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 8 dicembre 2014 · 12 Comments · In Vatican

At the eve of the sixth meeting of the Council of Cardinals, it seems that the path of the reform of the Roman Curia has come to a halt – Pope Francis himself said that reforms will not carried out within the next year. As there was a de facto halt for [...]

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Curia, the time for reforms has (perhaps) come

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 24 novembre 2014 · 1 Comment · In Vatican

Bishop Marcello Semeraro, coordinator of the Council of Cardinals, should be the man who will communicate today to the chiefs of Vatican dicasteries the decisions the Council has made for Curia reform. At the presence of Pope Francis, following a schedule that has much of definitive and little to discuss, the chief of dicasteries [...]

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Pope Francis starts reforms. But perhaps he will need to rely on St. Peter’s Pence

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 14 luglio 2014 · 2 Comments · In Vatican

It is rumored that the Peter’s Pence funds increased this year, and this news will certainly relieve Pope Francis. Peter Pence’s will give a breath of support to the Vatican operating funds,which are facing the always higher expenses of an elephantine curial machinery that needs to be streamlined. Not because of a theological-pastoral [...]

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Vatican, suspended between the search for a vision and a gang war

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 7 luglio 2014 · 3 Comments · In Vatican

Decisions are yet to be announced, and they will be this week. But the amount of gossips, rumors, even the leaks anticipating the data of the balance sheet of the Institute for Religious Works (the so called “Vatican bank”) show that there had been a war behind these decisions. The roots of this war [...]

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Vatican, a crucial week for reforms. With an eye on finances

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 17 febbraio 2014 · 2 Comments · In Vatican

The clock starts today for a very important week for the reform of the Church. The Council of Cardinals will begin its three-day meeting today. After that, informal meetings, until February 20 and 21, when the cardinals will gather in an ordinary public consistory. On Saturday, February 22 there will be a consistory [...]

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From external consultants to consultants from within. Is Pope Francis becoming “institutional”?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 3 febbraio 2014 · 2 Comments · In Vatican

Pope Francis is seemingly putting on a new hat, an institutional one. At a time when conclusions are being drawn from the reform process started under Benedict XVI and continued by his successor, Pope Francis is counterbalancing the weight of external consultants who, one way or another, have featured prominently during the first months [...]

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Pope Francis, between Roncalli’s and Martini’s utopias

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 27 gennaio 2014 · 5 Comments · In Vatican

The Roman Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls has been entrusted to Benedictines for 1300 years. There was such a strong tradition of ecumenical dialogue there, that Benedict XVI ultimately decided to give the basilica a specific mandate to promote ecumenism. Popes have been concluding the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity [...]

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Vatican communications evolve in Francis’ image. Can this eventually help Benedict?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 20 gennaio 2014 · 7 Comments · In Vatican

The evolution of Vatican communication under Pope Francis can eventually “rehabilitate” the Benedict XVI’ pontificate, which had been at least undermined by a certain kind of media narrative. There are two peculiar examples on how the Vatican communication became more pro-active, handling problems in the most proper way and trying [...]

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Church’s G8 proposes a commission to combat pedophilia and sex abuse by priests

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 9 dicembre 2013 · 4 Comments · In Vatican

After three days of discussions, the Council of Eight Cardinals advising Pope Francis on the Curia Reform made official its first proposal: establishing a specific commission for the protection of children who have been victims of abuse. The proposal represents one further step in the fight against clergy pedophilia, a fight pushed forward [...]

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