Pope Francis’s ten years in office have given us some impressive successes and notable failures. Most of the successes have been of the optical sort and fleeting—moments truly magnificent to behold, occasionally terrible and always […]
If a decade under Francis has taught us anything, it is that there is exactly nothing new under the sun and precisely nothing new in the broad survey of the state of the Church at […]
So, an accused sexual predator supposedly prohibited from saying Mass in public concelebrated a liturgy in Rome on Sunday. The accused predator is the disgraced celebrity artist-priest and spiritual guru Fr. Marko Ivan Rupnik SJ, […]
Two wonky stories out of the Vatican in the space of a week may give casual observers more than ample occasion for head scratching. They may also give more than a passing impression that Pope […]
It was an operatic week in the Vatican. Well, maybe soap-operatic. The week opened with an Italian animal rights group complaining about the literal circus Cardinal Konrad Krajewski – the papal almoner – put on […]
A headshrinker could have a field day with the interview Pope Francis gave to the Associated Press last week. There was plenty of grist for the mill, and news nonetheless buried between the argle and […]
A papal interview made real waves in the news this week, for the first time in a good while and for very good reason. The really big piece of news from the AP interview was […]
Morto ’n papa se ne fa n’artro, say the Romans – “When one pope dies, another is made” – and like all maxims and proverbs and other dicta of social wisdom, this one is true […]
Pope Francis has reorganized the Diocese of Rome. A complete rehearsal of the changes would run to considerable length and likely induce somnolence before it effected understanding. “Let me ’splain,” said Inigo Montoya to Wesley […]
Pope Francis and the Vatican were going to be under a microscope during the days between Benedict XVI’s passing and his interment. There was never any question of avoiding it. The period, however, turned pretty […]
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