Rome has always been a place where power is exercised without raising its voice. An appointment, a dinner, a foundation that opens an office or a university that gains weight. Signs often seem disconnected until, suddenly, they draw a trend. In the Vatican one begins to be perceived with clarity: the growing prominence of the United States (USA). It is not just that the first American pope of history, Leon XIV, has altered the traditional balanc…
Rome has always been a place where power is exercised without raising its voice. An appointment, a dinner, a foundation that opens an office or a university that gains weight. Signs often seem disconnected until, suddenly, they draw a trend. In the Vatican one begins to be perceived with clarity: the growing prominence of the United States (USA). It is not just that the first American pope of history, Leon XIV, has altered the traditional balanc…