Pope Leo XIV has initiated a major generational change in the Church’s central governing apparatus, the Roman Curia.

This change began in the Secretariat of State this past week, with the appointments of Anthony Onyemucho Ekpo as assessor and Mihăiţă Blaj as undersecretary for Foreign Affairs of the Secretariat of State, the key and [...]

The news that Leo XIV will convene a consistory for January 7-8 has not yet been made official by the Holy See Press Office. Since the National Catholic Register broke the news, however, numerous confirmations have emerged – some from cardinals themselves – and the circular letter sent to all the cardinals has made [...]

The document calling Mary’s title of co-redemptrix “inappropriate” isn’t the only news that broke last week.

At the press conference presenting the doctrinal note, held in the Jesuit Curia rather than in the Holy See Press Office, as would be more appropriate for a document of such importance, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez announced [...]

Leo XIV’s first Apostolic Letter is dedicated to the sixtieth anniversary of the conciliar declaration Gravissimum Educationis. It is titled Drawing New Maps of Hope and revelas, in its content and language, much of the ideological tension with which te neo-elect Pope Leo XIV is contending.

On the one hand, the last thing [...]