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Pope’s end-of-year address to Church hierarchy: beware ‘rigid ideological positions’ that ‘prevent us from moving forward’

December 21, 2023

ROME – In his annual Christmas address to members of the Roman Curia, Pope Francis urged the Church’s governing bureaucracy to be open to change and to resist “rigid ideological positions” that prevent them from moving forward. Speaking to members of the curia during a 21 December audience, Pope Francis stressed the need to “remain

Visitation at Vatican’s liturgy office before Cardinal Sarah’s successor announced

March 17, 2021

According to media reports, Bishop Claudio Maniago of Castellaneta, president of the liturgy commission of the Italian bishops’ conference, began a visitation to the Vatican’s liturgy office March 15.

8 Years in a Nutshell

March 14, 2021

...an exercise of brute force clothed in a gossamer administrative fig-leaf, with implausible reason given — raising questions of the true motive — ill-considered, ad hoc, juridically slapdash at best,...

Curial speculation follows papal meetings with bishops

March 08, 2021

The two are Blase Cardinal Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, and Bishop Robert Prevost of Chiclayo, Peru. Pope Francis had a private audience with Cardinal Cupich Jan. 30, while he met Bishop Prevost March 1.