To mark the 160th anniversary of the death of the curé of Ars St. John Mary Vianney, Pope Francis issued last year a letter addressed to all the priests. Read today, that letter also tells something about what Pope Francis is putting into action now.

At the beginning of the letter, Pope Francis [...]

Last week, Pope Francis appointed the layperson Máximino Caballero Ledo as general secretary of the Vatican Secretariat for the Economy, which is a sort of Vatican vice-minister for Finances. There are two ways to look at this decision.

The first: Pope Francis is carrying forward the “professionalization” of the Curia and picking laypeople [...]

Why does Pope Francis feel the need to replace all the members of his private secretariat? At first, Fabián Pedacchio Leániz, who served as Pope Francis’ first secretary since the beginning of the pontificate, left the office at the beginning of the year. Pedacchio had been an official at the Congregation for Bishops since [...]

The Congregation for the Clergy published last week the “Instruction for the pastoral conversion of the parish community in the service of the evangelizing mission of the Church.” It is not a revolutionary instruction, although many looked to that document for clues of a revolution. They were disappointed when they were not [...]

In July, Pope Francis is usually on vacation. He takes advantage of this period to prepare the calendar for the upcoming year and set the basis for what he will do from September on.

There are no official news. However, some clues help us to understand the overall situation.

The first clue is that [...]

The statement that Pope Francis has abstained from delivering about Hong Kong has re-opened the discussion on his policy towards China. Hong Kong is now enduring a new Chinese security law that has been dubbed as a freedom-killer by many.

Pope Francis was supposed to deliver a message to the Hong Kong people [...]

There are no detailed news about the temporary oversight of the association Memores Domini, part of the Communion and Liberation Movement. It is known that Pope Francis appointed a delegate, Fr. Gianfranco Ghirlanda, sj, who has become his trusted man when it comes to re-drafting the statutes of important congregations. It is also known [...]

“If I sit in a conclave tomorrow, I would not know the person sitting next to me.” This is what a cardinal – I will not reveal his name – told me some time ago. This says a lot about the feelings of the college of cardinals before an eventual election of another Pope.

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The celebration of the 5th anniversary of Pope Francis’ Laudato Si involves the launch of a Year of Creation and a text, “Journeying towards care for our common home,” drafted by an interdicasterial committee on integral ecology established after the publication of the encyclical.

Laudato Si is not Pope Francis’ only encyclical. In [...]

The arrest of Gianluigi Torzi in the Vatican led to more questions than answers. Torzi is the Italian broker who lives in London that operated as an intermediary in the Vatican Secretariat of State purchase of a building in Sloane Avenue, in London.

In the beginning, the Secretariat of State decided to [...]