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Leo XIV, the return of the theme of truth

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 19 maggio 2025 · 1 Comment · In Vatican

Peace, justice, and truth. In these three words, Leo XIV indicated the guidelines for diplomatic activity at the meeting of ambassadors accredited to the Holy See on Friday of last week. They will also be the guidelines of this pontificate’s doctrine of diplomacy.

It is too early to pass judgment on Leo XIV, [...]

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Leo XIV, the Pope, called to bring unity.

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 12 maggio 2025 · 2 Comments · In Vatican

For the first time in history, the new Pope pronounced his first words as pontiff, reading a written text. Leo XIV presented himself to the world, visibly moved, reading a text he had prepared full of cross-references, explaining who he is and some, at least, of what he wants to do.

The first Pope [...]

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After Pope Francis, a Church to be rebuilt?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 4 maggio 2025 · 2 Comments · In Vatican

The only certainty of the days following Pope Francis’s death, is uncertainty.

With his Church-as-a-field-hospital and his personal–personalist, in the political sense—modus gubernandi, Francis left many things unclear, confused, and subject to discussion. In a word: the “Franciscan” way of doing things created division.

This is the legacy of Pope Francis, which looms over [...]

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After Francis: The Institution, the Legacy, the Problems

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 28 aprile 2025 · Leave a Comment · In Vatican

There is a stark contrast between the idea that had been given of the funeral of Pope Francis, with the simplified rites and the desire that it not be seen as a sign of power, with the manner in which the transfer of the Pope’s body from the Santa Marta house to St. Peter’s [...]

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Pope Francis, five paradoxes of his pontificate

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 21 aprile 2025 · 7 Comments · In Vatican

Paradoxical and incomplete. The Pontificate of Pope Francis can be summed up in these two words. The time will come for all the excellent analyses apt to help us clarify whether Pope Francis’ revolution has given direction to the Church, or whether it was just a twelve-year tempest in a teacup. In short, to [...]

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Pope Francis: The Strategy for the Aftermath

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 21 aprile 2025 · 4 Comments · In Vatican

Except for the prefect of the Dicastery for the Oriental Churches, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, , there was not a single cardinal elector or even anyone with any particularly hefty role in the Vatican among the papal stand-ins during Holy Week.

When popes are ill or otherwise indisposed, standard practice in Holy Week and at [...]

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Pope Francis: What’s at stake in his financial legacy?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 14 aprile 2025 · 1 Comment · In Vatican

Chosen to restore the Curia, overcome corruption, and even – it was said at the beginning of his pontificate – shutter the Institute of the Works of Religion once and for all (the IOR is the much-maligned and even more misunderstood “Vatican bank”), Francis finds himself at this moment of his pontificate facing a [...]

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Pope Francis: How much does the lack of a legal framework weigh?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 7 aprile 2025 · Leave a Comment · In Vatican

Pope Francis has been back in the Domus Sanctae Marthae for two weeks now, after more than a month in Rome’s Gemelli hospital. Besides a brief apparition on Sunday, at the end of the Mass for the Jubilee of the Sick, the Pope has not been seen publicly after the surprise stop at Santa [...]

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Pope Francis and the Government of the Church

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 31 marzo 2025 · Leave a Comment · In Vatican

Pope Francis has been back in the Vatican for just over a week, with at least seven more of recovery to go, all during which his doctors have ordered him to keep a loose schedule and a very much lightened work load.

The question, then, becomes: How will things work, with Francis not working [...]

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Pope Francis, the future to be deciphered

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 24 marzo 2025 · 1 Comment · In Vatican

The letter that Pope Francis addressed to the Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera on March 14 is the epitome of the pontificate.

When the newspaper published the letter on March 18, it was immediately apparent that the Pope could not have written it. There’s nothing wrong with that. Not all of the Pope’s [...]

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