VATICAN CITY
Vatican Information Service

Vatican City, 17 February 2014 (VIS) – This morning in the Domus Sanctae Marthae the Pope’s third meeting with the Council of Cardinals began. The Council was created on 13 April 2013 and confirmed by Pope’s chirograph of 28 September, to assist in the governance of the Universal Church and to draw up a plan for the revision of the Apostolic Constitution “Pastor bonus” on the Roman Curia. The meeting will conclude on 19 February. Following the morning session, a press conference was held in which Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J., director of the Holy See Press Office, presented information on the meeting which begins ten days of intense activity on the part of the cardinals.

“As usual the Cardinals initiated their work with a Holy Mass concelebrated this morning at 7 a.m. in the Sanctae Marthae chapel, after which they began their meetings in…