Pope Francis and the Vatican Deep State

When Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio became pope in March 2013, it seemed promising that he was from what he, as Pope Francis, would call “the peripheries.” His election was expressive of the universality of the Church in a world where over two-thirds of Catholics now live in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. And, as a relative outsider to the Vatican, he seemed just the right person to oversee a bureaucracy in need of major reforms.