Reform and Responsibility: Leo XIV Reshapes Vatican Governance from Finance to Safeguarding

Apr 02, 2026 22:03

Valentina di Giorgio

the Pope has chosen Paola Fanelli to lead the Directorate of Human Resources Photo: Religion Digital

Dicasteries•Pope Leo XIV•Pro Life

Leo XIV perfects the mission of the Pontifical Academy for Life

The 2026 update is narrower in scope. Its most visible innovation is the formal introduction of “collaborators” — a new category distinct from the academy’s academic members.

Mar 03, 2026 08:51

ZENIT Staff

Dicasteries

Lefebvrians opt for schism leading to excommunication and reject Vatican offer

Is unity primarily juridical, doctrinal, or pastoral—and can any of these be isolated from the others? By confirming the 1 July consecrations, the Society of St. Pius X signals that it sees no viable path to agreement under the current parameters. Whether this leads to a repetition of 1988 or to an unexpected last-minute intervention remains to be seen

Feb 21, 2026 11:33

Jorge Enrique Mújica

Dicasteries

Canon Law in a Synodal Key: Vatican Launches Eastern Commission to Revisit the CCEO

The composition of the Commission reflects both technical expertise and interdicasterial collaboration. Members have been selected primarily from among Eastern-rite consultors of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts and the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches

Feb 20, 2026 11:53

ZENIT Staff

Dicasteries•Pope Leo XIV•Woman

Another Woman Appointed to the Dicastery for Bishops. Leo XIV Confirms Other Members

She is Sister Simona Brambilla, M.C., Prefect of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life

Feb 15, 2026 18:33

ZENIT Staff

Cardinals and Bishops•Dicasteries

The Lefebvrians’ meeting with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican, as told by themselves

We now offer the statement issued by the General House of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X on the same day

Feb 14, 2026 11:54

ZENIT Staff

Trump takes another swipe at the Pope following the audience granted by Leo XIV to the mayor of Chicago

The controversy erupted after Johnson visited the Vatican on May 28 and met with the Pope. Photographs released afterward showed the Chicago-born pontiff and the mayor exchanging gifts.

Pope Leo XIV and the Prime Minister of Canada Place Human Dignity at the Center of the AI Revolution During a Phone Call

On May 29, the Pope and the Canadian leader spoke by telephone following the publication of Leo XIV’s new encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas

Reform and Responsibility: Leo XIV Reshapes Vatican Governance from Finance to Safeguarding

Pope Leo XIV continues to restructure the Roman Curia: new Vatican No. 3 and prefect of the Papal Household

How can tradition, reform, and diversity be reconciled? The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith publishes a document on a success story: former Anglicans who have converted to Catholicism

The International Marian Association reiterates its request for a response from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith regarding the Marian document

Pope Leo XIV continues to reshape the Roman Curia: Meet the new Australian prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts

Another (important) change by Leo XIV in the Roman Curia: this is the Pope’s new almoner (and prefect of the Dicastery for Charity)

“Quo Vadis, Humanitas?”: Vatican Theologians Confront AI, Transhumanism and the Future of the Human Person

Leo XIV perfects the mission of the Pontifical Academy for Life

Lefebvrians opt for schism leading to excommunication and reject Vatican offer

Canon Law in a Synodal Key: Vatican Launches Eastern Commission to Revisit the CCEO

Another Woman Appointed to the Dicastery for Bishops. Leo XIV Confirms Other Members

The Lefebvrians’ meeting with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican, as told by themselves