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148357
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The 2016 US presidential election was uncomfortable for the Vatican and the American bishops.
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120488
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2013.
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Francis I represents an important shift from the eurocentrism of his predecessors. Even as he rebuilds the Church through renewed attention to poverty and inclusion, however, the real changes will be in Rome.
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133003
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2014.
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Italy is at the very centre of the Mediterranean, both physically and in geopolitical terms. During the communist era, this was a great advantage and Italy's south was viewed as a kind of NATO aircraft carrier. Today, Italy is the affordable mirage that draws desperate people from sub-Saharan Africa and from battered countries of the Middle East.
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146354
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This was perhaps Pope Francis’s most difficult foreign tour. For a 78-year-old Argentinian touching US soil for the first time, it meant arriving at his own Far North, his cultural frontier. Here was ‘the land of the free and the home of the brave’, as he recognised at the very beginning of his speech in front of the US Congress, on 24 September 2015 – a captivating start, as to this South American pontiff the US is not simply a great democracy pursuing freedom. It also embodies images of the fatherland of capitalism, of Wall Street’s wild finance, of military primacy and wars, of megacities’ ghettos: all things claimed as seeds of Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s potential anti-Yankeeism. Yet during his 22–27 September trip he was able to cover all the most sensitive topics without great controversy.
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138605
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This volume is a warning to Pope Francis: an engaging, ironic report of 300 pages or so, whose implicit message is that a change of pontiff alone is not enough to change the Vatican. From this perspective, The Vatican Diaries by John Thavis, a respected reporter and Rome bureau chief for the Catholic News Service of 30 years’ standing, packs a metaphorical punch. The diaries describe an enduring self-referential mentality – a conviction that nothing can actually change inside the Vatican walls and in the Catholic Church, and that in this universe of secrecy and mystery the truth is something to be manipulated and from time to time even fabricated for a ‘superior interest’, no matter what the faithful believe or what the media write and broadcast.
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