Some even said that a new Vatican policy might be in the making.
And he creates a bracing exploration of this realm, one that is by no means sacrilegious, though it sharply challenges Vatican policy.
But that Vatican foreign policy resisting Israel's legitimacy has been a failure for generations.
The Vatican policy to appease the Arab world has failed to prevent horrendous loss of life among the people it wants most to protect.
The Vatican policy was the death of the missions in China.
Vatican policy is to acknowledge a continuing, independent covenant between God and the Jews.
Current Vatican policy also favors half-round seating, which brings more church-goers closer to the altar.
His powers to influence Vatican policy, he said, "are exceedingly limited."
The word "tyranny" appears more than once in his letters about Vatican policy.
There is almost nothing the United States can do to shape Vatican policy.