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 [...]

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 [...]