Letter from Rome

By Robert Mickens
The Commonweal
May 8, 2015

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/letter-rome-29


We now have proof that at least one office in the Roman Curia can keep the pontifical secret. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization, told reporters this week that officials in his department remained tight-lipped for more than six months about Pope Francis’s plan to launch the extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy—which is pretty unusual in the Vatican. The pope surprised everyone at a Lenten penance service in St. Peter’s Basilica on...

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