Roundup: If They'd Made Me Pope

Everything I've written about Pope Celestine VI, long may he reign

The If They’d Made Me Pope series is getting lengthy, so here’s a roundup of all the installments:

• Part I: “Preliminaries” — Panic, a regnal name, and the end of the celebrity papacy (3 June)

• Part II: “Government 101” — Succession, emergency powers, codification, legitimacy, and security, aka the bear necessities of government (10 June)

• Part III: “Amending the Unwritten Constitution” — Curial (ahem) reform, titular bishops, auxiliary bishops, metropolitan bishops, appointment of bishops (26 June)

• Part IV: “Restoring the Rule of Law” — Follow the law, enforce the law, really basic stuff, you’d think (29 July)

• Part V: “Three Cool Reforms to Canon Law” — Automatic excommunication, canonical form, canonization process, good ol’ boring process liberalism. (15 August)

• Part VI: “Three Spicy Reforms to Canon Law” — Owning the libs. Also the cons. Own them all; God will know His own.

• Part VII: “Restoring the Ancient Disciplines”

• Part VIII: Doctrinal Matters

• Part IX: Miscellany