New Fundamental Law of the Vatican City State, fully replacing Francis' 2023 version - Full English Translation

Fundamental Law of Vatican City State

31 July 2026

LEO XIV

The need to take into account new requirements of governance and certain important normative modifications that have occurred over the course of recent years prompts the issuance of a new Fundamental Law.

The Anti-Nice Faction is Fading in Rome: Archbishop Cordielone's Interview and the Need to Restore the Rights of the Latin Mass ("I don't know how well Cardinal Roche knows the mind of the Holy Father")

Archbishop Cordileone Celebrating the Traditional Mass

Good and proper American bishops are once again being recognized in Rome, and the nomination of Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, of San Francisco, to the supreme tribunal of the Catholic Church, the Signatura Apostolica, by Pope Leo XIV last Saturday is just such an example.