Category: Vatican reform

Coming to praise Italian predominance in the Vatican, not to bury it

by bcadmin | Nov 16, 2022 | Italy, lead, News, News Analysis, Vatican, Vatican finances, Vatican reform | 0 |

While breaking the Italian stranglehold on church governance may appear a no-brainer, perhaps it’s worth pausing a moment to consider the case for the defense.

Pope writes his vision for the church into new constitution for Roman Curia

by bcadmin | Mar 19, 2022 | Curial reform, Evangelization, lead, News, Pope Francis, Roman Curia, Vatican, Vatican reform | 0 |

Pope Francis’s new apostolic constitution outlining the role and function of the Roman Curia enshrines much of his broader vision for a decentralized, synodal, and missionary church dedicated to the works of evangelization and charity.

Can Church Divisions Be Healed?

by bcadmin | Feb 21, 2022 | 2022, Can Church Divisions Be Healed?, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Cold Civil War in America and Catholic Church, Columns, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Curial reform, decentralization of the Catholic Church, Federalist 51, Holy Spirit, If men were angels, James Madison, Jesus Christ, News, Pope Francis, Praedicate evangelium (“Preach the Gospel”), Robert Royal, St. John Paul II’s Pastor Bonus, The Catholic Thing, The Lamentation by Scipione Pulzone, Vatican reform | 0 |

Robert Royal: Will the pope’s concern that Rome not be an authoritarian regime lead to healthy subsidiarity or to Germany’s near-schism?

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Pope’s Italian crackdown suggests he’s more irked by sloth than ideology

by bcadmin | Nov 28, 2021 | Annulments, lead, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, roman rota, Vatican reform | 0 |

Few popes in recent memory have been quite as aggressive in seeking to reshape the Italian church as Francis, who may be Argentinian but whose family roots are in the northern Italian region of Piedmont.

Yes, honest to God, Vatican finance stories matter

by bcadmin | Nov 9, 2021 | Cardinal Angelo Becciu, lead, London financial scandal, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Vatican reform, Vatican trial | 0 |

Pope Francis’s Vatican overhaul began in two areas, finances and communication. If, at the end of the day, neither appears materially transformed, it suggests skepticism about whether any of the loftier ends the pope is seeing are achievable.

Vatican’s former finance guru resigns from post at Swiss bank

by bcadmin | Aug 25, 2021 | lead, News, Rene Brulhart, Vatican, Vatican finances, Vatican reform, Vatican trial | 0 |

Just weeks after being indicted by the Vatican on charges of abuse of office over a shady London real estate deal, Swiss lawyer René Brülhart has resigned from his post on the board of a Swiss bank.

If this is Vatican reform, some are wondering what’s really changed

by bcadmin | May 27, 2021 | Cardinal Gualtiero Bassetti, Cei, Dicastery for Communication, lead, News, News Analysis, pre-seminary, Vatican Press Office, Vatican reform | 0 |

The conclusion many Italians in and around the Vatican have already drawn about Pope Francis’s reform is that it’s a Gattopardesca reform, meaning one in which lots of things change so the fundamentals can remain the same, and the start of this week has done little to convince them otherwise.

Is Anybody Listening? Pope Questions Reach of Vatican Comms

by bcadmin | May 24, 2021 | Dicastery for Communication, News, Pope Francis, Vatican, Vatican reform | 0 |

“I have only one concern,” Pope Francis said, although he acknowledged “there are many reasons to be concerned” about the Vatican’s communication efforts. “But it is one that I have very much to heart: How many people listen to the Radio? How many read L’Osservatore Romano?”

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Shabby exit of anti-abuse reformer captures Vatican’s HR pandemic

by bcadmin | Apr 8, 2021 | Cardinal Sean O'Malley, human resources, lead, Monsignor Robert Oliver, News, News Analysis, Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, Vatican, Vatican reform | 0 |

The recent departure of American Monsignor Robert Oliver as secretary of the Pontifical Commission for Minors forms a small part of a bigger picture about a largely undiagnosed HR pandemic in the Vatican.

Cardinal Parolin says church divisions stem from misunderstanding ‘reform’

by bcadmin | Apr 5, 2021 | Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church Reform, COPE, Curia reform, News, Secretariat of State, Sino-Vatican dialogue, Vatican, Vatican reform, Vatican-China | 0 |

Three days after the preacher of the papal household called on Catholics to repent for the ways they are dividing the church, the Vatican secretary of state said the divisions are real and they are harmful.

Huzzah! Or, what a bawdy “historical” drama can teach us about Church reform

by bcadmin | Mar 3, 2021 | Church Reform, News, Pope Francis, The Great, Top Story, Vatican reform | 0 |

To change domestic policy, or even the course of a war, it is more important to amuse the monarch than inform him, and an insinuation will work better than an argument.

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Analysis: Are legal reforms in the Vatican designed not to work?

by bcadmin | Feb 28, 2021 | Church Reform, clerical sexual abuse and coverup, News, Pope Francis, Top Story, Vatican reform | 0 |

A Vatican City criminal court heard two days of frequently gruesome testimony last week, in the trial of two clerics: 28-year-old Fr. Gabriele Martinelli and 71-year-old Fr. Enrico Radice. Martinelli, a former student at the St. Pius X minor seminary in the Vatican, is charged with sexual abuse of a junior boy when Martinelli was

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