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Pope Francis, the necessary diplomacy

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 20 aprile 2015 · 1 Comment · In Vatican

More than a need for a reform, the Roman Curia needs better functionality and more vision – these are the conclusions one can draw from last week’s events in the Vatican. The week began with the meetings of the Council of Cardinals to discuss about Curia reforms and also with the international [...]

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Pope Francis’ Real Challenge

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 13 aprile 2015 · 2 Comments · In Vatican

There is a recurrent theme in all the conversations around curial reform as well as an eventual reform of Catholic doctrine on the basis of the outcome of the coming Synod of Bishops: the theme is ‘sensus fidei fidelium’ (literally, the sense of faith on the part of the faithful), that is, the intuition [...]

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Pope Francis: Will His ‘Revolution’ Be Effective?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 30 marzo 2015 · 2 Comments · In Vatican

Pope Francis dedicated the week preceding Holy Week to finishing the draft of his much awaited encyclical on ecology. Despite this “institutional break,” the discussion on Church reforms is still ongoing in the media. Discussion is not merely about the need to reform Church structures. Already from the time of Benedict XVI’s pontificate, [...]

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Pope Francis: Looking for a Reform Scenario

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 9 marzo 2015 · 1 Comment · In Vatican

The official approval of the statutes of the three recently established Vatican economic bodies marked a small turning point in the path toward Vatican reforms. The anomaly that Pope Francis created by establishing curial dicasteries without any statutes has now come to a close. The era of external consultants has now turned [...]

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Pope Francis: An Agenda Behind his Back?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 23 febbraio 2015 · 6 Comments · In Vatican

Is there an agenda at work behind Pope Francis’ back? As he carries out his plan of renewal for the Church, one that is based on the purification of hearts, on pastoral efforts and on evangelization through attraction, many individuals are trying to exploit his spontaneity, and also his naivete, in order to [...]

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Help! Theology Needed to Reform the Curia

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 16 febbraio 2015 · 4 Comments · In Vatican

In the end, the “revolution” has turned into a renewal, to be carried forward slowly. It could not be different, because in the way in which it was outlined, Curia reform could not possibly meet anyone’s criteria. Not even that of the so-called progressive wing. In the end, some criticism came from them [...]

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Pope Francis, beyond the paradigm of discontinuity

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 8 dicembre 2014 · 13 Comments · In Vatican

At the eve of the sixth meeting of the Council of Cardinals, it seems that the path of the reform of the Roman Curia has come to a halt – Pope Francis himself said that reforms will not carried out within the next year. As there was a de facto halt for [...]

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Curia, the time for reforms has (perhaps) come

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 24 novembre 2014 · 2 Comments · In Vatican

Bishop Marcello Semeraro, coordinator of the Council of Cardinals, should be the man who will communicate today to the chiefs of Vatican dicasteries the decisions the Council has made for Curia reform. At the presence of Pope Francis, following a schedule that has much of definitive and little to discuss, the chief of dicasteries [...]

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Pope Francis, the moment for a change of pace

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 22 settembre 2014 · 1 Comment · In Vatican

The reference to «the spirit of Francis» in characterizing the new document that will regulate the functions of the offices of the Roman Curia is the most prominent and newsworthy aspect of the presentation of its introduction. The draft of the new introduction has been discussed during the six meetings of the Council [...]

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Is the “missio ad gentes” still a priority for Pope Francis’ Church?

By Andrea Gagliarducci On 21 luglio 2014 · Leave a Comment · In Vatican

That Pope Francis is very attentive to the dialogue with non-believers is clear from his most recent conversation with Eugenio Scalfari, the founder of the Italian leftist newspaper “La Repubblica”.  Scalfari, a self-proclaimed atheist, who even wrote a book entitled “Me and God”, on his being a non-believer. The conversation published by [...]

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