Canon 129 § 1 of the Code of Canon Law says that power in the Church should be exercised by “those who have received Holy Orders.”
Leo Legitimizes Francis’ Lawlessness
Buried under the polite boilerplate about “co-responsibility in communio,” Leo’s new motu proprio on the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State quietly rewrites who can rule the pope’s (so-called) temporal domain.
Under the 2023 Fundamental Law, the Commission was “composed of Cardinals, including the President, and of other members.” The president had to be a cardinal, full stop. That mattered, because the President of the Commission is also President of the Governorate – effectively the head of government of Vatican City, exercising delegated jurisdiction in the name of the Roman Pontiff.
Francis ignored that and put Sister Raffaella Petrini in the job anyway. It was not just a photo-op. It was objectively contrary to the law as written. Silere non possum spent months pointing this out while official Vatican media pretended everything was fine and the Press Office floated a ghost “amendment” that never appeared in the Acta.
Leo’s November 19 motu proprio finally admits the problem without saying it out loud. Article 8 is rewritten: the Commission is now composed of cardinals “and other members, including the President.” In other words, the President no longer needs to be a cardinal at all. The law is changed to fit Petrini. What was illicit yesterday becomes perfectly legal today.
And because “other members” are not even required to be clerics, the door is now canonically open for a lay technocrat to be the de facto head of Vatican City. Francis smashed the old structure by personalist fiat; Leo rebuilds the scaffolding around the wreckage and calls it good governance. The novelty is not undone. It is regularized.
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