Is Italy’s influence in the Church diminishing?

Seven major Italian sees – Florence, Genoa, Milan, Naples, Palermo, Turin, and Venice – are now no longer led by a Cardinal. And in Rome, where last week Cardinal Angelo De Donatis, Vicar of Rome, was transferred to the curia as the head of the Apostolic Penitentiary (a kind of elephant’s graveyard), it may be Rome itself will not be headed by a Cardinal Archbishop.