Today, the first Council of Cardinals of the new era of Pope Francis’ pontificate begins. Of course, it is not the first Council held after the promulgation of the Apostolic Constitution Praedicate Evangelium, the reform of the Curia, which was the main reason why the Pope decided to gather around himself a group of [...]

Once again, Pope Francis has changed the Vatican judiciary system. He did it with a motu proprio, the third on the issue since he promulgated the new judicial system in 2020. The need to continuously “adjust” laws analyzed and evaluated according to ad hoc requirements is striking. And so is the fact that [...]

Pope Francis has collected testimonies of people from various war scenarios to serve as witnesses of the faith at the Way of the Cross on Good Friday at the Colosseum. Their testimonies are anonymous, and the texts were not disclosed in advance, as usual, but only a few hours before the Way of the [...]

News of Pope Francis’ deteriorating health has given way to speculation about different scenarios. The point now is no longer to identify a successor to Pope Francis but to understand how to fix the governance problems that have occurred during this pontificate.

Pope Francis has said repeatedly that he had been elected with the [...]

Before the latest motu proprio on the implementation of the Vos Estis Lux Mundi, Pope Francis’ latest government decision is the renewal of the Council of Cardinals membership. Nine members with the inclusion of Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, who attended all meetings but who was not initially included in the chirograph [...]

The news of the acquittal “because the fact does not exist” of Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, a former official of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See, came on the eve of the testimony in court of Archbishop Edgar Pena Parra, substitute (deputy) of the Secretariat of State, in the trial on [...]

Ten years ago, Pope Francis came out donned as a Pope from the Loggia delle Benedizioni of the Vatican Apostolic Palace for the first time. He had refused the red mozzetta, had asked to be blessed by the people, and immediately began building his pontificate, which was, in reality, a work of visible breach [...]

As the tenth anniversary of his pontificate approaches, Pope Francis has executed another crackdown on what he deems a Vatican “system.” With a rescript, a document written after an audience with the Pope, he blocked both the free apartments for office use and the flats at subsidized prices for the department heads. In [...]

The Praedicate Evangelium, the apostolic constitution which regulates the functions and duties of the offices of the Curia, gives the Dicastery for Divine Worship the precise task of promoting “the sacred liturgy according to the renewal undertaken by the Second Vatican Council.” The mention of the Council could have been read as a clue [...]

Pope Francis has various methods of governing, but the technique of relativizing power, or in any case of taking away power, is his most common. Whenever the Pope wants to take control of certain situations, he does not change management or initiate reform. First, he takes away power and credibility from those in the [...]