Vatican Crisis Highlights Pope Failure to Reform Curia
Tom Heneghan at Reuters reports on Pope Benedict’s failure to “gain control over the Curia,” which Heneghan describes as a “centuries-old bureaucracy dominated by Italian clerics.” In the wake of the “Vatileaks” scandal, Benedict’s “papacy look[s] weak and disorganized,” writes Heneghan. Before he took office, “Benedict was seen as the best man to reform it since he had been a Curia member since 1981 and reportedly knew it inside out.” Yet with the Vatican now in crisis mode, Heneghan predicts that “the task looks set to be handed on to his successor.”