VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
Thomas Reese | Jul. 11, 2014 Faith and Justice
The work of reforming the Roman Curia is not easy, but it is going well, according to Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, chair of the Council of Cardinals appointed by Pope Francis to advise him on reform of the Roman Curia. Rodriguez hopes that the council will have a new constitution for the Curia by December to replace Pastor Bonus, the 1988 apostolic constitution of Pope John Paul II.
I interviewed Cardinal Rodriguez and Cardinal Oswald Gracias of Mumbai, India, another member of the council, when they visited Washington, D.C., at the beginning of June.
The work of the council began with each of the eight members collecting suggestions from his part of the world. For example, most of the bishops’ conferences in Asia asked Cardinal Gracias why liturgical translations could not be done at the conference level, especially for languages in which Rome has no expertise.
Cardinal Gracias recognized the irony of this suggestion coming to him — he is a member of Vox Clara, the group appointed by the Vatican to oversee the recent English translation of the liturgy.
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