The letter in which Pope Francis asked the cardinals to limit expenses and find external funding for the Holy See arrived almost unexpectedly. Sent Friday, 20th September 2024, the letter had some of the usual papal rhetoric against the alleged “resistance” to reforms. It took a while to get to the poijnt, too. Finally, [...]

In the jargon of the United Nations’, we speak of third- (or fourth)-generation human rights, not born from common accord but crafted as tools for imposing a vision of the world. The Holy See constantly notes in every international gathering that these rights and their terminology do not have a universal consensus.

In the [...]

We do not yet have the complete transcript of Pope Francis’s meeting with the Jesuits of Singapore, but we know—from a Vatican News report that includes a testimony by Fr. Antonio Spadaro SJ—the Pope spoke of two Jesuits: Pedro Arrupe, who led the Society of Jesus in the turbulent years after the II [...]

During his trip to Indonesia, Pope Francis bent down to kiss the hand of the Grand Imam of the Istiqlal Mosque, the largest in Asia. The gesture of kissing the Imam’s hand is just the latest in a series of dramatic gestures by Pope Francis, who often takes advantage of the cameras to leave [...]

Why would Pope Francis call a new consistory? It is a legitimate question that does not arise out of nowhere. Rumors about a possible creation of new cardinals have been swirling again, especially since a few hints were dropped in May.

The traditionalist site Messa in Latino relaunched the news of a possible [...]