VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee | Feb. 11, 2015
VATICAN CITY
The cardinals advising Pope Francis on reforming the church’s central bureaucracy have yet to create a single comprehensive draft of a new structure of governance, the Vatican spokesman said Wednesday.
Addressing the work of the Council of Cardinals during a briefing, Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi said several times that many working documents had been discussed in the group, but no draft was ready.
“There is not a draft,” the spokesman said at one point. “There was not a draft of the [new] constitution.”
Lombardi was speaking Wednesday toward the end of a three-day meeting of the cardinals’ group, which is composed of nine prelates and has been advising the pope on how to reform the Vatican bureaucracy, known as the Roman Curia.
The meeting of the council is a part of an unusually busy week at the Vatican, as discussions on reform of the Curia are to continue Thursday and Friday during a rare meeting in Rome of all the church’s cardinals. On Saturday, Pope Francis will officially name 20 new cardinals in a formal ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica.
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