Holy See mission closure lacked foresight

The Government intends to open a ‘scaled-down’ diplomatic mission to the Holy See, which it closed ostensibly to ‘save money’.

The rationale for the closure was never terribly convincing, especially after the failure of diplomacy to engage the authority and collaboration of the Holy See in major State investigations into child sex abuse by hundreds of priests.

We have a new Pope, who is acclaimed by the flock, and he is busily overhauling Vatican bureaucracy.