The Order of Malta forces reform

After six years of battle with speckled foils, Francis has simply dealt a deadly blow to the Knights of the Order of Malta, who resisted his want for elementary reform and which he ended up imposing in an authoritarian mode very observed in Rome.

As of final Saturday, the Sovereign Army and Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta – its official title – seems to now not be so “sovereign”, as Francis objectively beheaded its present management to position a provisional authorities . It’s the Frenchman Emmanuel Rousseau, 53, who turns into the Grand Commander. The pope additionally imposed a brand new statute, defining this establishment above all as a “non secular order, dependent, in its numerous articulations, on the Holy See”.

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