Any leader worth his salt will maintain multiple lines of communication and information, and every monarch throughout history has played courtiers off each other.
From the vantage point of a manager of managers of managers, it is definitely within the Holy Father's ability to shut down this dynamic if he wants to. He has correctly urged the clergy not to be "ecclesial climbers" -- yet these are exactly the sorts he seems to favor with access and influence.
And why does the Holy Father allow Cardinal Cupich to side step his own Nuncio?
Isn't this behavior a source of the problem?
Any leader worth his salt will maintain multiple lines of communication and information, and every monarch throughout history has played courtiers off each other.
From the vantage point of a manager of managers of managers, it is definitely within the Holy Father's ability to shut down this dynamic if he wants to. He has correctly urged the clergy not to be "ecclesial climbers" -- yet these are exactly the sorts he seems to favor with access and influence.