Vatican veteran on Pope's address: 'nothing like this has ever happened before'
December 23, 2014
The former president of the Vatican city-state governorate said that the December 22 address by Pope Francis to the Roman Curia was an unprecedented attempt to spur reform at the Vatican.
“To be honest, nothing like this has ever happened before,” said Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, who served for years in different Vatican posts before his retirement in 2011.
The Italian cardinal said that he understood the need for reform. “For instance,” he said, “on the basis of my experiences of the Curia, I believe that a simplification of procedures would diminish scandals.”
Cardinal Lajolo, in a conversation with journalist Andrea Tornielli of La Stampa, observed that the Pope’s address was intended as an examination of conscience, which the Pontiff intended to be applied to himself as well as to others serving at the Vatican.
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