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The Dispatch

Analysis: Power, and its appearance, in Vatican curial reform

May 8, 2019 Catholic News Agency 6

Vatican City, May 8, 2019 / 05:35 pm (CNA).- In the coming months, Pope Francis is expected to approve a final draft of a new governing constitution for the Roman Curia. Evangelium praedicate, as it […]

Analysis

Despite much-hyped reform, new Curia remains a governing apparatus

April 29, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 10

Vatican watchers got their first real look at what might be in store for the Church’s central governing apparatus this weekend, when an article appeared in the new edition of Spain’s leading Catholic Vida Nueva […]

Analysis

Questions remain about McCarrick, even as new scandals emerge

February 16, 2019 Christopher R. Altieri 13

(Rome, February 16th, 2019) The Vatican announced on Saturday that the disgraced former Archbishop of Washington, DC, Theodore, Edgar McCarrick, has been dismissed from the clerical state after being found guilty of several different canonical […]

The Dispatch

Pope’s remarks to Curia on abuse more of the same

December 23, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 20

“To those who abuse minors I would say this: convert and hand yourself over to human justice, and prepare for divine justice.” Those were the words upon which reporters rightly seized, and from which headline […]

Analysis

The Viganò scandal raises serious questions about reform in the Roman Curia

March 22, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 13

Is the Pope distancing himself from his reform project, now that the man he chose to head it has resigned? […]

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Cardinal Zen: Chinese Catholics’ “continuous harassments…would take volumes to be narrated.”

March 9, 2018 Anthony E. Clark, Ph.D. 14

I would like the express my gratitude to Cardinal Zen for agreeing to answer a few questions for Catholic World Report at this crucial moment in the history of the Catholic Church in China. Over […]

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The Jesuit Pope and the problematic reform of the Roman Curia

January 15, 2018 Christopher R. Altieri 15

2017 was a year in which the micro-fissures in the structure began to be visible to the naked eye. 2018 is likely to be the […]

Books

“The Dictator Pope” is sometimes frustrating, but filled with valuable insights and information

December 13, 2017 Philip F. Lawler 34

The most valuable service provided by the author of The Dictator Pope is the psychological portrait of Pope Francis: manipulative, hypersensitive, and often downright vindictive—certainly […]

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