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Valentina di Giorgio

Articles By Valentina di Giorgio

Local Church

False Priest in Turin Exposes Gaps in Church Verification After Four Months of Unauthorized Ministry

The episode raises questions extending beyond the conduct of the alleged impostor. How was a man claiming to have been ordained in January 2025 allowed to exercise ministry without his credentials first being confirmed directly with the Church authorities supposedly responsible for him? And was he given permission to celebrate according to the Latin rite, or did he present documentation granting him faculties in both rites?

Pope Leo XIV•Woman

Leo XIV Appoints New Leadership to Guide the Synodal Process into Its Next Phase

Announced on October 30, the appointments fill the positions previously held by Bishop Luis Marín and Sister Nathalie Becquart. Marín has moved to the leadership of the Apostolic Almoner’s Office and the Dicastery for the Service of Charity, while Becquart, appointed in February 2021, concludes a period in which she became one of the most recognizable figures of the synodal process

Cardinals and Bishops•Pope Leo XIV•Rome

The Vatican’s “foreign minister” opens up to the press: China, Leo XIV, the Pope’s travels, and his relationship with the Curia

Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, the Holy See’s Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations, offered this assessment during a meeting with journalists in Rome on October 27. Leo, he said, had initially given the impression of a “Superman, a super-Pope” after his election in 2025, moving quickly into the responsibilities left by the prolonged illness and death of Francis

Dicasteries•Pope Leo XIV•Protection of vulnerable people

Pope Leo XIV personally ordered his Dicastery for Communication to stop using works by the former Jesuit Rupnik, according to the bishop of Lourdes

The Vatican quietly removed the images in June, a decision that initially came without an official explanation. Micas’s account now provides an explanation for that change and portrays Leo as having taken a deliberate position on an issue that had become increasingly difficult for the Church to treat simply as a question of artistic preference