A reforming pope's dilemma: Using the center to deliver decentralization
A reforming pope’s dilemma: Using the center to deliver decentralization Jun 9, 2021 editor Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Sunday, June 6, 2021. (Credit: Giuseppe Lami/Pool via AP.) The more a given pope sees himself as a reformer, the more inclined he often is to act like an old-school absolute monarch to advance that agenda. News Analysis ROME – Before St. John Paul II, the old joke used to go that being pope meant never having to say you’re sorry. Since John Paul actually apologized for ...
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