What the new Pope must do

The new Pope must buy property, but not in Rome.Rome as the administrative centre of the Church is offensively Eurocentric ,especially as it shrinks in authority and numbers .Modern communications technology makes this unnecessary. Worst of all the congealed mass of bureaucrats in the Curia and in the one tiny area automatically leads to the idea that the Church can only be run by a clergy.

The world is full of unused office property without which no great city is apparently complete. Empty office blocks , in Los Angeles, Jakarta ,Manila,Lagos or where ever must be bought for the Vatican. Its weirdly named committees-“dicasteries “- can ba allotted a new city in minutes. The world’s great companies, I am sure, will be delighted to lend their employees if necessary. Unimpressed and unimpeded by the centuries of documentation felt by the Curia to be a bulwark against change, the New Curia can place it reverently aside , and let the Church get on with its life.