Leo XIV brings the era of Vatican austerity to an end: no more pay cuts. The circumstances that led to Bergoglio’s decision “can be overcome”, says the Pope 

On his 71st birthday, the Pontiff announced the construction of a new building and revoked Pope Francis’s 2021 ‘Motu proprio’, which, due to the pandemic emergency, had reduced the salaries of cardinals, heads and secretaries of the dicasteries, and clerics or members of religious orders