VATICAN CITY
Chiesa
VATICAN CITY, April 8, 2013 – In addition to the unprecedented selection of the name Francis, pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio is immediately impressing on the central government of the Church innovations that those in the curia are looking at with trepidation, if not with terror.
The decision not to live in the pontifical apartment on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace but to continue to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae, which had accommodated him as a cardinal during the conclave, is already in itself an act of rupture.
In practice, this allows the new pope to remove himself physically from the bureaucratic pressure that – if he were to move up there – would risk turning his life upside down and suffocating his effective capacity of governance.
It would be interesting to know if and to what extent there has already been a reduction in the volume and weight of the briefcases of documents that the secretariat of state customarily brings to the desk of the pope to submit to him texts for study, approval, endorsement, etc.
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