VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee | Dec. 3, 2013
VATICAN CITY As the pope meets for the second time this week with eight cardinals he has appointed to help him reform the church’s central bureaucracy, the Vatican said Tuesday the objective is not small changes but wide revisions.
The work of the group, known formally as the Council of Cardinals, “requires going in depth … to really go in depth,” said Vatican spokesman Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi at a press briefing.
“Their idea and their objective is not to make small changes … but a consistent and in-depth revision” of the papal document, known as an apostolic constitution, which governs the functions of Vatican bureaucracy, Lombardi said.
“We can even speak about a new apostolic constitution for the Curia,” he said.
The cardinals’ group is meeting Tuesday through Thursday at the Vatican. The group, which includes prelates from six of the seven continents, met for the first time Oct. 1-3. The lone American in the group is Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley. Honduran Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga serves as its coordinator.
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