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

Cardinals and Bishops•Dicasteries•Pope Leo XIV

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

The appointment, announced on March 25, fills a strategic vacancy at the heart of the Vatican’s juridical machinery. Randazzo, 59, succeeds Filippo Iannone, who was transferred in September 2025 to lead the Dicastery for Bishops, the body responsible for vetting episcopal appointments worldwide

Local Church•Protection of vulnerable people

After seven years, Rhode Island report finds a past it cannot prosecute and a present it cannot condemn

The Rhode Island investigation thus occupies an uneasy space between revelation and closure. It contributes to the historical record of abuse within the Catholic Church in the United States, reaffirming patterns already documented elsewhere: a concentration of cases in the mid-20th century, followed by a sharp decline as awareness, reporting mechanisms and safeguarding protocols evolved