The press reported on the case of Fr. Mauro Inzoli, a serial sexual abuser of children. He was ordered defrocked by Pope Benedict in 2012, but was reinstated as a priest with a lesser penalty by Pope Francis in 2014 at the urgings of Inzoli's friends Cdl. Coccopalmerio and Msgr. Pio Vito Pinto, judges in Vatican courts. The notorious "Don Mercedes" was later convicted by an Italian court and defrocked again by Francis later in 2017.

Cdl. Becciu resigned at the demand of Pope Francis in the wake of investigations of financial dealings.

The motu proprio "Traditionis Custodes" restricted the application of the classic Latin liturgical tradition.