Why the Príncipi case matters
The standoff between the pope's chief of staff and the DDF's disciplinary section could tell us everything about law and power in Francis' Vatican
The Vatican Secretariat of State’s “extraordinary procedure” to reinstate a laicized priest, blocked this week by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, may prove to be the most significant Vatican story of the year.
Little is known, as yet, about why sostituto Archbisho…