ROME
National Catholic Reporter
by Joshua J. McElwee | Mar. 2, 2013
Rome —
As the church’s cardinals discuss who should be the next pope, they’ll also be considering how the church should be governed in the future, the editor of the Vatican’s semi-official newspaper said Saturday.
“The church always needs reform,” said Giovanni Maria Vian, a native Italian who is the editor of L’Osservatore Romano. “In history, the church of Rome and the church in general has shown its ability to respond and reform.”
A daily Italian-language paper, L’Osservatore Romano also publishes weekly editions in a number of other languages.
This week the paper has also published a number of special issues centering on Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation and the beginning of the period of “sede vacante,” when the church is without a pope as the cardinals begin to decide who will next fill the role.
Speaking in a short fifteen-minute interview in his Vatican office, Vian focused on the issue of church reform. The key reality of the Vatican, he said, is that “the Holy See is managed with care and with a continual effort to be faithful to the Gospel.”
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