Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters

Pope Leo’s understated public manner obscures his acceleration of the Vatican’s leftward tilt.

“Why pick on Francis now that he is dead?”

Studio Matters has been silent for several months.

This essay was written late on Election Day.

It did not take long for this shiny new pontificate to lose its lustre.

We woke up last Thursday in a different country from the one we knew the morning before.

“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”

Graphic design is a silent but powerful language.

Meet Giovanni Battista Bugatti, official executioner for the Papal States from 1796 until he retired, with a papal pension, in 1864.

Two days after his election, Leo XIV summarized the keynotes of his reign.