The appeal ruling on former Auditor General Libero Milone, released last week, is just one of the aftermaths of the season of Vatican trials inherited by Leo XIV. But the ruling is particularly significant because it reveals, in some ways, the situation Leo XIV will have to resolve.

Libero Milone was the Vatican Auditor [...]

Cardinal Agostino Vallini is 85 years old and has not held any Vatican office for some time. Since 2017, however, he had been papal legate to the Papal Basilicas of Assisi, a position to which Pope Francis had appointed him following the death of Cardinal Attilio Nicora. On July 16, Vallini also left that [...]

Father Alejandro Moral, superior of the Augustinians, let it be known last week in an interview with Il Messaggero that Leo XIV is working on the structure of his first encyclical. The big question is whether the Pope will follow the inspiration that comes from his name, and therefore dedicate the first encyclical of his [...]

The release of two internal reports from Pope Francis’s global consultation of bishops on the reception of the Traditional Latin Mass rekindled a series of controversies over the past week, all centered on the place of older forms of worship in the life of the Church and the place of the people devoted to [...]