The cancellation of the second World Children’s Day follows another decision made in February that brought a structural change by placing the initiative under the integrated management of the Roman Curia. Leo XIV dissolved the Pontifical Commission for World Children’s Day, a body created in 2024 by his predecessor, Pope Francis, for organizational matters. As a result, the president, vice president, and all members of the body — including Father Enzo Fortunato, who had served as president of the committee — automatically ceased their functions.
Madrid - In recent days, on the occasion of the defence of a friend’s doctoral thesis, the Reverend Monsignor Edgard Iván Rimaycuna Inga, personal secretary to Pope Leo XIV, gave a brief interview to Alfa y Omega, the weekly publication linked to the Archdiocese of Madrid. His words offer a portrait of a ministry lived in discretion at the Pope’s side, while also providing a direct glimpse of the human and pastoral style of Leo XIV: a man who, according to those who have known him for years, has remained close to people, sober, patient, and deeply shaped by the ecclesial experience of Latin America. What does it really mean to be the personal secretary to a Pope, in this case Leo XIV? It means working alongside a friend, in my particular case; being the one who helps him in his daily work and who protects him so that he can carry out that work in peace. My role is also to help him find and secure the rest he needs, so that the Holy Father may continue his mission of guiding the Church. …
Msgr. Edgard Iván Rimaycuna Inga, the Pope's Private Secretary, on Pope Leo XIV: "Everything is the same, because it has not changed. I could say it like this: only the clothing, which is now white, and the role has changed. The man we have all known is the same: approachable, calm, with a great capacity for listening and who is always available. Despite the large volume of work, the pace, the activities... he always finds time to meet people, to listen."
La Fabbrica di San Pietro, lo storico Ente Vaticano che si occupa della conservazione e della valorizzazione della Basilica Papale di San Pietro, aderisce a Italia Virtute. La "centrale rischi onlife" Italia Virtute misura l’effettivo grado di fiducia meritato sia da operatori economici, sia da consumatori. È un efficace strumento di selezione dei fornitori e di qualificazione degli operatori economici, per i quali attesta il merito reputazionale, utile per ottenere punteggi premiali nelle procedure di gara...
In nunziatura, a via Po, invece, se ne va il bosniaco Peter Ranjit - attuale nunzio- per essere portato a capo della Prefettura della casa Pontificia, vale a dire l'organismo che determina anche l'agenda papale e che è stato rafforzato di recente con l'arrivo di un agostiniano nigeriano, Edward Daleng. Sulla via della pensione, invece, è una figura storica, quasi leggendaria, padre Leonardo Sapienza, attuale Reggente della Prefettura che col suo lavoro competente ha attraversato ben quattro pontificati, spesso salvando Papi e cardinali da autentiche frittate diplomatiche e protocollari. Il ruolo di Prefetto era vacante dal 2023 quando papa Francesco aveva trasferito l’arcivescovo Georg Gaenswein con il quale non andava d'accordo. Per il momento tutte le cariche curiali sono ancora a termine, con la formula latina del donc aliter provideatur, finchè non si provveda altrimenti...
Light a candle of thanks to the Blessed Virgin Co-Redemptrix - Mother Mary. Amen. A novena to St Francis of Assisi and St. Padre Pio should be planned for the 'removal' of his 'compadre' in mischief: Tucho Fernandez! These humans (and too many others like them) do not belong in the Holy See!