Pope Francis issued a motu proprio yesterday concerning “money-laundering, the financing of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction” (full text, press release).
The National Catholic Reporter has obtained the transcript of Vatican Cardinal João Braz de Aviz’s address to the International Union of Superiors General in May.
Sandro Magister suggests that Pope Francis is bypassing the Vatican secretariat of state and governing through a “miniscule but highly active” alternative “segretariola”.
Theodore Dalrymple accuses the Pope of “elevating feeling over thought” during his visit to the migrant island of Lampedusa last month.
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