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Pope Francis Enacts New Round of Financial Reforms

April 29, 2021

The new law's stated aim is to curtail and target instances of a range of crimes, including fraud, corruption, money-laundering, terrorism or terrorism-related activities, exploitation of minors and human trafficking, as well as tax evasion.

How McCarricks Happen

April 18, 2021

Thinking in terms of McCarricks, plural, is important for the Catholic Church. If we’ve had to suffer one, what’s to stop there being others? Indeed, among many lessons to be learned from the whole sorry spectacle, surely one is that being a McCarrick can (to borrow a concept from game theory) be a supremely profitable ‘strategy’.

When Enough Is Enough

April 05, 2021

When it comes to stepping on their own message, neither the pope nor the Vatican has need of the press corps’ help. This time, however, it's different.

Cardinal Zen expresses ‘pain and indignation’ at St. Peter’s Basilica private Mass restrictions

March 30, 2021

The former bishop of Hong Kong said March 30 that if he could, he would fly to Rome and kneel outside the pope’s residence until the decree was withdrawn.

Pope Francis modifies Vatican criminal code, citing ‘changing sensibilities’

February 16, 2021

These changes may affect the Vatican’s impending trial of the 39-year-old Italian woman Cecilia Marogna, who has been accused of embezzlement, which she denies.

Analysis: Pope Francis’s promotion of women a more complicated narrative than it appears

February 10, 2021

Pope Francis made some high profile appointments heading into last weekend, naming Sr. Nathalie Becquart and Fr. Luis Marín de San Martín as undersecretaries to the Synod of Bishops. Only, what does the appointment of a woman with full voting rights in the Synod really tell us about how Pope Francis governs the Church?

Pope Francis accepts resignation of top curial cardinal

September 24, 2020

Cardinal Angelo Becciu has been mired in controversy for years, and received the red hat in 2018.

Analysis: BXVI’s letter on St John Paul II has at least one line for Francis

May 15, 2020

It's easy to confuse questions of doctrine with those of governance - there's often a good deal of real-world overlap - which is why it's important to make and keep the distinction