Rapid Response for SUNDAY, May 2, 2021

THIS CATEGORY IS: "NOTHING CHANGES"...IN THIS CASE NOT IN THE VATICAN,  AND NOT IN ITALY.

Read the whole report to bring you back to the Middle Ages or much earlier. But here are two samplers.

"Time will tell whether that's the case with Francis's latest innovation - or whether, as has happened so often in the past in the Vatican, this turns out to be another case of everything appearing to change so that, in reality, everything can remain the same."

"In general, Italians tend to be relativists about law and absolutists about family, so skirting rules on competitive bidding and conflicts of interest in order to help out relatives and others considered della famiglia, or part of the family, is seen by many Italians not only as acceptable, but actually noble."

"CATCH ME WHAT I MEANS?"

GS