Roche, Fernández and the collapse of competence at the heart of the Church

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Roche, Fernández and the collapse of competence at the heart of the Church

Mark Lambert

January 28, 2026

Roche, Fernández and the collapse of competence at the heart of the Church

I worry that the present pontificate is in danger of normalising a widening gap between authority and competence, a gap that has worryingly become most visible when senior officials are required to justify contested policies in writing. Two recent interventions from Rome have brought that disjunction sharply into focus. Cardinal Arthur Roche’s consistory essay defending…