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Pope Francis to Roman Curia: ‘Rigid ideological positions’ prevent us from moving forward

December 21, 2023 Catholic News Agency 40

Pope Francis gives his annual Christmas address to the cardinals who work in Vatican offices on Dec. 21, 2023, in the gilded Hall of Benediction at the Vatican. / Credit: Vatican Media

Rome Newsroom, Dec 21, 2023 / 11:13 am (CNA).
Pope Francis … […]

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Vatican insiders: Reports of Cardinal Peter Turkson’s resignation ‘credible’

December 17, 2021 Catholic News Agency 1

Cardinal Peter Turkson, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, in London, England, on March 14, 2011. Credit: Mazur/catholicchurch.org.uk.

Rome Newsroom, Dec 17, 2021 / 15:44 pm (CNA).
Cardinal Peter Turkson’s tenure… […]

The Dispatch

At six year mark, Francis’ pontificate struggles with crisis as stakes increase

March 13, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 8

Sixth anniversaries aren’t really a thing. Nobody thinks they are — not really — except insofar as it is a news hook on which to hang editorial copy, like that, which came on the occasion from […]

The Dispatch

Pope Francis, “diaconal primacy”, and decentralization of the curia

December 28, 2017 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille 38

Decentralization by no means guarantees better governance, but is much more theologically, historically, and practically defensible than the Roman centralization and personality cult of the […]

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Pope Francis exhorts Curia to avoid “unbalanced and debased mindset of plots and small cliques”

December 21, 2017 Catholic News Agency 25

“The universal nature of the Curia’s service,” the Holy Father told Curia members in the annual pre-Christmas address, “… wells up and flows out from […]

Analysis

Pope Francis’ “open and incomplete” leadership and the puzzling “reform” of the Curia

December 19, 2017 Christopher R. Altieri 22

Fr. Antonio Spadaro, SJ, the Editor-in-Chief of La Civiltà Cattolica, says the Holy Father’s leadership “is based on the success-error dynamic,” which inevitably “destabilizes whoever […]

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Pope names Archbishop Luis Ladaria as Müller’s successor to head CDF

July 1, 2017 Catholic News Agency 14

The Vatican announced Saturday that as Cardinal Gerhard Müller’s term as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith comes to an end, the Pope has not renewed it, but has appointed Jesuit […]

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