The past seven days will have left many Vatican observers wondering if the American Pope is properly beginning to flex his administrative muscles. As many columnists have written, or discussed in conversations around the Eternal City, Leo XIV’s appointments in the Roman Curia will be some of the clearest tells about the man himself and the direction he wants for his reign.
Some answers have been provided over the past week, not only through naming men to new roles but also in governance decisions which the Pope has enacted. Chief among the roster was the moving of Cardinal Konrad Krajewski out of Rome and back to his native Poland to assume the vacant see of Łódź. Krajewski has been a large figure in the Vatican in recent years, arriving to serve as a papal Master of Ceremonies in the late 1990s before being named Papal Almoner for Pope Francis in 2013.
