Gianfranco Ghirlanda

Pope Francis receives his ring from Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, during his inaugural Mass in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican March 19, 2013. (CNS/Paul Haring)

Pope Francis' reforms make the heresy-hunting Vatican of John Paul II barely recognizable

Pope Francis' new constitution for the Roman Curia, Praedicate Evangelium, is a reform aimed at nothing less than a conversion of the way power is exercised in and from Rome, and by extension in the global Catholic Church.

St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican is seen from a street in Rome. (Unsplash/Shai Pal)

Vatican reforms hailed as breakthrough for laity, despite open questions

By Christopher White

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